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Tracking
Yeshwanth Malekar
CONTENT
Motivation
Results
Challenges
Future Work
Previous Work
References
Algorithm
Detection
Solution
Problems
Motivation
Tracking Tennis players and ball in a Tennis match
Project Goal
Challenges
Video taken is not from a steady camera.
The speed and size of the ball pose real problems.
Previous Work
Most of the previous work is done on a video taken from
a steady camera.
Algorithm
1. Extract Background image.
2. Frame difference method.
3. Morphological Operations.
4. Blob analysis.
5. Detect players and ball.
Foreground Separation
Morphological Operations
Conditions
Added extra boundary conditions for the ball.
Finally centroid conditions to keep track of the players
and ball in the following frames.
Simple solution
Skipped through the frames with more than required blobs.
Continue detecting the players when the video is stabilized.
Saved the centroid of the players detected in all the frames.
Adjustments:
Added the difference of the centroid positions of last two images to the
previous image.
We have new approximated candidate positions for the blank frame.
Advantages (Cont.)
Problems encountered
The ball moves at high speeds and changes its direction
rapidly.
Problems (Cont.)
Results
Results (Cont.)
Result (Doubles)
Future Work
Better ball detection techniques for a moving camera.
Would also like to work on different ball games such as
soccer.
References
Hira Fatima et al, Object Recognition, Tracking and Trajectory Generation
in Real-Time Video Sequence, International Journal of Information and
Electronics Engineering vol.3, no.6, pp. 639-642, 2013.
Amor Salorpour et al, Vehicle Tracking Using Kalman Filter and Features,
Signal & Image Processing, an International Journal (SIPIJ), Vol.2, No.2,
June 2011.
F. Yan and W. Christmas and J. Kittler, Tennis Ball Tracking Algorithm for
Automatic Annotation of Tennis Match, BMVC, pp 619-628, 2005.
Questions