Tracking people in broadcast sports

  • Authors:
  • Angela Yao;Dominique Uebersax;Juergen Gall;Luc Van Gool

  • Affiliations:
  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Switzerland and KU Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd DAGM conference on Pattern recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a method for tracking people in monocular broadcast sports videos by coupling a particle filter with a vote-based confidence map of athletes, appearance features and optical flow for motion estimation. The confidencemap provides a continuous estimate of possible target locations in each frame and outperforms tracking with discrete target detections. We demonstrate the tracker on sports videos, tracking fast and articulated movements of athletes such as divers and gymnasts and on nonsports videos, tracking pedestrians in a PETS2009 sequence.