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Main Authors: Koshkina, Maria, Elder, James H.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13896
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author Koshkina, Maria
Elder, James H.
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Elder, James H.
contents Jersey number recognition is an important task in sports video analysis, partly due to its importance for long-term player tracking. It can be viewed as a variant of scene text recognition. However, there is a lack of published attempts to apply scene text recognition models on jersey number data. Here we introduce a novel public jersey number recognition dataset for hockey and study how scene text recognition methods can be adapted to this problem. We address issues of occlusions and assess the degree to which training on one sport (hockey) can be generalized to another (soccer). For the latter, we also consider how jersey number recognition at the single-image level can be aggregated across frames to yield tracklet-level jersey number labels. We demonstrate high performance on image- and tracklet-level tasks, achieving 91.4% accuracy for hockey images and 87.4% for soccer tracklets. Code, models, and data are available at https://github.com/mkoshkina/jersey-number-pipeline.
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spellingShingle A General Framework for Jersey Number Recognition in Sports Video
Koshkina, Maria
Elder, James H.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Jersey number recognition is an important task in sports video analysis, partly due to its importance for long-term player tracking. It can be viewed as a variant of scene text recognition. However, there is a lack of published attempts to apply scene text recognition models on jersey number data. Here we introduce a novel public jersey number recognition dataset for hockey and study how scene text recognition methods can be adapted to this problem. We address issues of occlusions and assess the degree to which training on one sport (hockey) can be generalized to another (soccer). For the latter, we also consider how jersey number recognition at the single-image level can be aggregated across frames to yield tracklet-level jersey number labels. We demonstrate high performance on image- and tracklet-level tasks, achieving 91.4% accuracy for hockey images and 87.4% for soccer tracklets. Code, models, and data are available at https://github.com/mkoshkina/jersey-number-pipeline.
title A General Framework for Jersey Number Recognition in Sports Video
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13896