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Fast and Reliable Detection of Hockey Players

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2013

Abstract

Current popularity of augmented reality (AR) stems from its ability to enhance the perceived environment in real-time with additional information of semantic context, such as sports scores shown on TV during match broadcasting. Its other application areas range from industry and medicine to military, commerce and entertainment.

Advanced AR technologies obviously rely on accurate, yet fast enough algorithms for multimedia processing and object recognition. In this paper, we study the possibility of using convolutional neural networks for real-time detection of hockey players from videos of broadcasted ice-hockey matches.