In soccer games, understanding the movement of players and a ball is essential for the analysis of matches or tactics. In this paper, we present a system to track players and a ball and to estimate their positions from video images. Our system tracks players by extracting shirt and pants regions and can cope with the posture change and occlusion by considering their colors, positions, and veloc...

Recognizing the arbitrary standard FIFA ball is a significant ability for soccer robots to play competition without the constraint of current color-coded environment. This paper describes a novel method to recognize arbitrary FIFA ball based on omni-directional vision system. Firstly the omni-directional vision system and its calibration for distance map are introduced, and the conclusion that ...

The takraw ball is a very unique interwoven ball used in the action game of sepak takraw. To date there has been no studies on the dynamic behavior and mechanical properties of the takraw ball. The purpose of this study is to predict the dynamic behavior and mechanical properties of the takraw ball in particular of normal impact on flat surfaces at low speeds. Two methods are employed to measur...

Skilled fielders were filmed as they ran backward or forward to catch balls projected toward them from a bowling machine 45 m away. They ran at a speed that kept the acceleration of the tangent of the angle of elevation of gaze to the ball at 0. This algorithm does not tell fielders where or when the ball will land, but it ensures that they run through the place where the ball drops to catch he...

This paper deals with analysis of broadcast soccer video. Estimation of ball movements is necessary to recognize interesting scenes such as goal scenes. It is, however, sometimes difficult to detect a ball using a simple color-based or shape-based method when the ball overlaps with multiple players and lines. We therefore developed a method of estimating a ball route during such overlaps by con...

We study two notions. One is that of lens-convexity. A set of circumradius not greater than one is lens-convex if, for any pair of its points, it contains every shorter unit circular arc connecting them. The other objects of study are bodies obtained as an intersection of finitely many balls of the same radius, called ball-polyhedra. We find analogues of several results on convex polyhedral set...

Hitters in fast ball-sports do not align their gaze with the ball throughout ball-flight; rather, they use predictive eye movement strategies that contribute towards their level of interceptive skill. Existing studies claim that (i) baseball and cricket batters cannot track the ball because it moves too quickly to be tracked by the eyes, and that consequently (ii) batters do not - and possibly ...

In this paper we propose an effective algorithm for detection of a soccer ball and players. In the currently available methods, the ball may not be detected when it is attached to the lines in the ground. To overcome this problem, we introduce a method to separate lines from the ball and segment the ball effectively. At first we detect the ground and the edges of the original image. Then an eff...

A geodesic metric space is δ-hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov if and only if the intersection of any two metric balls is almost a ball. In particular, R-trees can be characterised by the property that the intersection of any two metric balls is again a metric ball.