Automatic annotation of tennis games: An integration of audio, vision, and learning

F Yan, J Kittler, D Windridge, W Christmas… - Image and Vision …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fully automatic annotation of tennis game using broadcast video is a task with a great
potential but with enormous challenges. In this paper we describe our approach to this task …

Ball tracking for tennis video annotation

F Yan, W Christmas, J Kittler - Computer Vision in Sports, 2014 - Springer
Tennis game annotation using broadcast video is a task with a wide range of applications. In
particular, ball trajectories carry rich semantic information for the annotation. However …

Players tracking and ball detection for an automatic tennis video annotation

K Teachabarikiti, TH Chalidabhongse… - … Robotics & Vision, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes our algorithms for players tracking and ball detection for an automatic
broadcast tennis video annotation. The system detects and tracks the players using a robust …

Ball event recognition using HMM for automatic tennis annotation

I Almajai, J Kittler, T de Campos… - … on Image Processing, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key prerequisite of automatic video indexing and summarisation is the description of
events and actions. In the context of many sports, the motion of the ball and agents plays an …

[PDF][PDF] A Tennis Ball Tracking Algorithm for Automatic Annotation of Tennis Match.

F Yan, WJ Christmas, J Kittler - BMVC, 2005 - Citeseer
Several tennis ball tracking algorithms have been reported in the literature. However, most
of them use high quality video and multiple cameras, and the emphasis has been on …

A ball tracking system for offline tennis videos

BD Ekinci, M Gokmen - Proceedings of the 1st WSEAS international …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
As a result of the increasing demand for higher quality in sports broadcasting, sports video
analysis has become a popular research field in computer vision. Innovative replays, content …

[PDF][PDF] A system for the automatic annotation of tennis matches

WJ Christmas, A Kostin, F Yan… - … workshop on content …, 2005 - researchgate.net
In this paper we describe a system for the automatic annotation of tennis matches. The goal
is to provide annotation at all levels, from shot detection to a complete breakdown of the …

Gesture spotting for low-resolution sports video annotation

MC Roh, B Christmas, J Kittler, SW Lee - Pattern Recognition, 2008 - Elsevier
Human gesture recognition plays an important role in automating the analysis of video
material at a high level. Especially in sports videos, the determination of the player's …

Automatic acquisition of motion trajectories: tracking hockey players

K Okuma, JJ Little, D Lowe - Internet Imaging V, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Computer systems that have the capability of analyzing complex and dynamic scenes play
an essential role in video annotation. Scenes can be complex in such a way that there are …

Anomaly detection and knowledge transfer in automatic sports video annotation

I Almajai, F Yan, T de Campos, A Khan… - … and identification of rare …, 2012 - Springer
A key question in machine perception is how to adaptively build upon existing capabilities
so as to permit novel functionalities. Implicit in this are the notions of anomaly detection and …