Maximum entropy model-based baseball highlight detection and classification
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on event detection in video
Tracking soccer players aiming their kinematical motion analysis
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Camera-based observation of football games for analyzing multi-agent activities
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Pattern Recognition, Third Edition
Pattern Recognition, Third Edition
A Visual Tracking Algorithm for Real Time People Detection
WIAMIS '07 Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
Multimodal semantic analysis and annotation for basketball video
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Trajectory based event tactics analysis in broadcast sports video
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
An Unsupervised Approach for Segmentation and Clustering of Soccer Players
IMVIP '07 Proceedings of the International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference
Visually tracking football games based on TV broadcasts
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Multi-camera people tracking by collaborative particle filters and principal axis-based integration
ACCV'07 Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part I
Players and ball detection in soccer videos based on color segmentation and shape analysis
MCAM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Multimedia content analysis and mining
3-D camera modeling and its applications in sports broadcast video analysis
MCAM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Multimedia content analysis and mining
Text driven temporal segmentation of cricket videos
ICVGIP'06 Proceedings of the 5th Indian conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
Personalized abstraction of broadcasted American football video by highlight selection
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Trajectory-Based Ball Detection and Tracking in Broadcast Soccer Video
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Virtual Viewpoint Replay for a Soccer Match by View Interpolation From Multiple Cameras
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Real-Time Modeling of 3-D Soccer Ball Trajectories From Multiple Fixed Cameras
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Automated stroke classification in Tennis
ICIAR'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
MiniDiver: A Novel Mobile Media Playback Interface for Rich Video Content on an iPhoneTM
ICEC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing
Take your eyes off the ball: Improving ball-tracking by focusing on team play
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
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In the last decade, several research efforts have been undertaken in soccer video analysis. This increasing interest is motivated by the possible applications over a wide spectrum of topics: indexing, summarization, video enhancement, team and players statistics, tactic analysis, referee's support, etc. Soccer video analysis requires different challenging tasks: ball and players have to be localized in each frame, tracked over time and, above all, their interactions have to be detected and analyzed. The latter task is fundamental, especially for statistics and referee decision support purposes, but, unfortunately, it has not received adequate attention from the scientific community. In this paper a multi-view system able to understand in real time the interactions between the ball and the players is presented. 3D ball trajectories are extracted by triangulation from multiple cameras and used to detect the interactions between the players and the ball. Inference processes are then introduced to determine the player kicking the ball and to fix the instant of the interaction. The system has been tested during several matches of the Italian first division soccer championship and experimental proofs of its effectiveness are reported.