Ice hockey shot event modeling with mixture hidden Markov model

  • Authors:
  • Xiaofeng Wang;Xiao-Ping Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada;Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • EiMM '09 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Events in multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new event analysis framework based on mixture Hidden Markov Model(HMM) for ice hockey video. Hockey is a competitive sport, which is hard to model because of its frame color homogeneity. But it does posses many temporal regularities. With the mixture representation of local observations and Markov chain property of hockey event structure the hockey shot event is successfully modeled as a mixture HMM. Based on the mixture HMM the hockey shot event could be classified with higher accuracy. Two kinds of mixture HMM are compared for the real hockey video shot event classification. The results prove our analysis that the mixture HMM is a suitable model to deal with complex videos with intensive activities. The new mixture HMM hockey shot event model could be a very useful tool for coaches and players to analyze hockey games.