Attributed Graphs for Tracking Multiple Objects in Structured Sports Videos

Henrique Morimitsu, Roberto M. Cesar-Jr., Isabelle Bloch; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2015, pp. 34-42

In this paper we propose a novel approach for tracking multiple object in structured sports videos using graphs. The objects are tracked by combining particle filter and frame description with Attributed Relational Graphs. We start by learning a probabilistic structural model graph from annotated images and then use it to evaluate and correct the current tracking state. Different from previous studies, our approach is also capable of using the learned model to generate new hypotheses of where the object is likely to be found after situations of occlusion or abrupt motion. We test the proposed method on two datasets: videos of table tennis matches extracted from YouTube and badminton matches from the ACASVA dataset. We show that all the players are successfully tracked even after they occlude each other or when there is a camera cut.