Hirokatsu KATAOKA, Ph.D.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

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"Football Players and Ball Tracking using Monocular Camera for Tactics Analysis"
Hirokatsu Kataoka (Keio Univ), Yoshimitsu Aoki (Keio Univ)

  In football contents, there are many services now. For example, player's tactics analysis and production of highlight scenes. In order to put into practice these contents, it is necessary to acquire important information from the football videos. In this paper, we propose a method to track multiple players and ball in a football video which is captured by monocular camera. In the case of capturing the video from a single view, there might be a lot of occluded situations of players. To overcome this problem, we propose a robust tracking method for multiple players by combining Particle Filter and Classifier. In order to track the ball, we try to track applying labeling and nearest neighbor algorithm. And more, we apply Homography to extract player's position on the pitch.

  In this research, we propose the players and ball tracking method for soccer video analysis by monocular camera. Particle Filter is the player tracking approach. In the context of occlusion, classifier detects players and resamples the center of gravities. Labeling and nearest neighbor algorithm are used to track soccer ball. Homography converts the player's position from source image to bird'-eye view in order to specify player's location on the pitch. In addition, we realized "tactics analysis" with monocular camera (player's speed, scene understanding, offensive/defensive area shown as below). The future work is to estimate ball position in 3D-space. As for the video analysis, we'll accumulate a number of football scenes to analyze team's characteristic.




References

- Hirokatsu Kataoka, Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Yoshimitsu Aoki, "Player Position Estimation by Monocular Camera for Soccer Video Analysis", SICE Annual Conference 2011, Sep 2011 [PDF]
- Hirokatsu Kataoka, Yoshimitsu Aoki, "Football Players and Ball Tracking using Monocular Camera for Tactics Analysis", IIEEJ Trans. , Mar 2012 [PDF:Japanese]




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