Computer Vision in Sports (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) - Tapa dura

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<p>The first book of its kind devoted to this topic, this comprehensive text/reference presents state-of-the-art research and reviews current challenges in the application of computer vision to problems in sports.</p><p></p><p>Opening with a detailed introduction to the use of computer vision across the entire life-cycle of a sports event, the text then progresses to examine cutting-edge techniques for tracking the ball, obtaining the whereabouts and pose of the players, and identifying the sport being played from video footage. The work concludes by investigating a selection of systems for the automatic analysis and classification of sports play.</p><p></p><p><b>Topics and features:</b></p><p></p><ul><li>Describes the latest research into ball tracking, addressing the challenges posed by the presence of occlusions and the use of only a small number of cameras</li><li>Reviews various systems for player tracking and pose estimation</li><li>Presents approaches for the improved generation of statistics and synthesis of virtual views</li><li>Explores the “higher level” analysis of sports, from identifying types of sports to recognizing particular team behaviors based on multiple event or motion detections</li><li>Discusses the detection of specific kinds of events for automatic highlights generation or searching of video archives</li></ul><p></p><p>The insights provided by this pioneering collection will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners involved in computer vision, sports analysis and media production.</p><p><b></b></p><p><b>Prof. Thomas B. Moeslund</b> is Head of Media Technology, Aalborg, and Head of the Visual Analysis of People Lab at Aalborg University, Denmark. <b>Dr. Graham Thomas</b> leads the Immersive and Interactive Content team at BBC Research & Development, London, UK. <b>Prof. Adrian Hilton</b> is Director of the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.</p>