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Observation and analysis of high-speed human motion with frequent occlusion in a large area

Yuru Wang, Jiafeng Liu, Guojun Liu, Xianglong Tang and Peng Liu

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The use of computer vision technology in collecting and analyzing statistics during sports matches or training sessions is expected to provide valuable information for tactics improvement. However, the measurements published in the literature so far are either unreliably documented to be used in training planning due to their limitations or unsuitable for studying high-speed motion in large area with frequent occlusions. A sports annotation system is introduced in this paper for tracking high-speed non-rigid human motion over a large playing area with the aid of motion camera, taking short track speed skating competitions as an example. The proposed system is composed of two sub-systems: precise camera motion compensation and accurate motion acquisition. In the video registration step, a distinctive invariant point feature detector (probability density grads detector) and a global parallax based matching points filter are used, to provide reliable and robust matching across a large range of affine distortion and illumination change. In the motion acquisition step, a two regions' relationship constrained joint color model and Markov chain Monte Carlo based joint particle filter are emphasized, by dividing the human body into two relative key regions. Several field tests are performed to assess measurement errors, including comparison to popular algorithms. With the help of the system presented, the system obtains position data on a 30 m × 60 m large rink with root-mean-square error better than 0.3975 m, velocity and acceleration data with absolute error better than 1.2579 m s−1 and 0.1494 m s−2, respectively.


PACS

02.50.Ga Markov processes

06.20.fb Standards and calibration

02.50.Le Decision theory and game theory

07.05.-t Computers in experimental physics

Subjects

Computational physics

Instrumentation and measurement

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2009)

Received 9 July 2009, in final form 10 September 2009

Published 29 October 2009



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