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Player identification in soccer videos

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Alberto Del Bimbo,

Walter NunziatiAuthors Info & Claims

MIR '05: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval

Pages 25 - 32

https://doi.org/10.1145/1101826.1101833

Published: 10 November 2005 Publication History

Abstract

A method for the identification of players in soccer videos is presented. The proposed approach exploits the inherent multiple media structure of soccer videos to perform people identification without relying on face recognition. Instead, faces are detected in close-up shots, and then the filmed player is recognized by means of recognition of the number depicted on the frontal part of its jersey, or by detection and interpretation of superimposed closed caption. Players not identified by this process are then assigned to one of the labeled faces by means of a face similarity measure. We present results obtained from soccer videos of the last European Championship for national teams, held in Portugal in June 2004.

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Player identification in soccer videos
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision tasks
        Video summarization
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems
      1. Multimedia databases

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MIR '05: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval

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ISBN:1595932445

DOI:10.1145/1101826

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Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Center, China
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IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
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Qi Tian
University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

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