A review on camera calibration in soccer videos

M Manafifard - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Camera calibration has attracted much attention, as a primary step of various soccer game
analyses, such as real-world player tracking and offside detection. Moreover, metric …

Sports camera calibration via synthetic data

J Chen, JJ Little - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Calibrating sports cameras is important for autonomous broadcasting and sports analysis.
Here we propose a highly automatic method for calibrating sports cameras from a single …

Backtracking regression forests for accurate camera relocalization

L Meng, J Chen, F Tung, JJ Little… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera relocalization plays a vital role in many robotics and computer vision tasks, such as
global localization, recovery from tracking failure, and loop closure detection. Recent …

[PDF][PDF] Classification of puck possession events in ice hockey

MR Tora, J Chen, JJ Little - 2017 IEEE conference on …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Group activity recognition in sports is often challenging due to the complex dynamics and
interaction among the players. In this paper, we propose a recurrent neural network to …

A two-point method for PTZ camera calibration in sports

J Chen, F Zhu, JJ Little - 2018 IEEE winter conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Calibrating narrow field of view soccer cameras is challenging because there are very few
field markings in the image. Unlike previous solutions, we propose a two-point method …

Learning to film from professional human motion videos

C Huang, CE Lin, Z Yang, Y Kong… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We investigate the problem of 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) camera planning for filming
professional human motion videos using a camera drone. Existing methods either plan …

Batteries, camera, action! learning a semantic control space for expressive robot cinematography

R Bonatti, A Bucker, S Scherer… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial vehicles are revolutionizing the way filmmakers can capture shots of actors by
composing novel aerial and dynamic viewpoints. However, despite great advancements in …

Lightweight convolutional neural networks for player detection and classification

K Lu, J Chen, JJ Little, H He - Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2018 - Elsevier
Vision-based player detection and classification are important in sports applications.
Accuracy, efficiency, and low memory consumption are desirable for real-time tasks such as …

Light cascaded convolutional neural networks for accurate player detection

K Lu, J Chen, JJ Little, H He - arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.10230, 2017 - arxiv.org
Vision based player detection is important in sports applications. Accuracy, efficiency, and
low memory consumption are desirable for real-time tasks such as intelligent broadcasting …

Low-cost trajectory-based ball detection for impact indication and recording

AG Melo, MF Pinto, ALM Marcato, IZ Biundini… - Journal of Control …, 2021 - Springer
In the last decades, the automation process has improved humans' daily life. As technology
continues to evolve, software and machines are increasingly being used to automate …