Real-time CNN-based Segmentation Architecture for Ball Detection in a Single View Setup

07/23/2020
by   Gabriel Van Zandycke, et al.
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This paper considers the task of detecting the ball from a single viewpoint in the challenging but common case where the ball interacts frequently with players while being poorly contrasted with respect to the background. We propose a novel approach by formulating the problem as a segmentation task solved by an efficient CNN architecture. To take advantage of the ball dynamics, the network is fed with a pair of consecutive images. Our inference model can run in real time without the delay induced by a temporal analysis. We also show that test-time data augmentation allows for a significant increase the detection accuracy. As an additional contribution, we publicly release the dataset on which this work is based.

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