A Multiple Hypothesis Approach for a Ball Tracking System

Authors:
Oliver Birbach;Udo Frese
Affiliations:
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems, Bremen, Germany 28359;Fachbereich 3 - Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany 28334
Venue:
ICVS '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems: Computer Vision Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a computer vision system for tracking and predicting flying balls in 3-D from a stereo-camera. It pursues a "textbook-style" approach with a robust circle detector and probabilistic models for ball motion and circle detection handled by state-of-the-art estimation algorithms. In particular we use a Multiple-Hypotheses Tracker (MHT) with an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for each track, handling multiple flying balls, missing and false detections and track initiation and termination. The system also performs auto-calibration estimating physical parameters (ball radius, gravity relative to camera, air drag) simply from observing some flying balls. This reduces the setup time in a new environment.