A semi-supervised system for players detection and tracking in multi-camera soccer videos

作者：Martin Rafael^*; Martinez Jose M

来源：Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2014, 73(3): 1617-1642.

DOI：10.1007/s11042-013-1659-6

• Sports videos
• Multi-camera systems
• Object detection
• Object tracking
• Fusion
• Homography

This paper presents a complete, general and modular system which after a simple previous configuration is able to detect and track each player on the court or field. The presented multi-camera system is based on a mono-camera object detection and tracking system originally designed for video surveillance applications. Target sports of the developed system are team sports (e. g., basketball, soccer). The main objective of this paper is to present a semi-supervised system able to detect and track the players in multi-camera sports videos, focusing on the fusion of different tracks of detected blobs in order to match tracks across cameras. The proposed system is simpler than other systems from the state of the art, can operate in real time and has margin to be improved and to reduce supervision adding additional complexity. In addition to the detection and tracking system, an evaluation system has been designed to obtain quantitative results of the system performance.

• 出版日期2014-12