16.7.4.6.1 Human Activities, Sports, Planned Activities

Chapter Contents (Back)
Activity Recognition. Human Motion. Sports. Soccer, Football, Tennis.

CVBASE Annotated Video Data,
2006.
HTML Version. Dataset, Video.

UCF Sports Action Dataset,
2008.
HTML Version. A large set of sports actions. Dataset, Sports. Note that many of the other non UCF links to data on that page are out of date.

LHI Sports Activity Dataset,
Subset of larger dataset. Online2008
HTML Version. Dataset, Sports. See also Lotus Hill Institute. BibRef 0800

Chang, C.W., Lee, S.Y.,
A Video Information-System for Sport Motion Analysis,
JVLC(8), No. 3, June 1997, pp. 265-287. 9708 See also Video Content Representation, Indexing, and Matching in Video Information Systems. BibRef

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.], Bobick, A.F.[Aaron F.],
Recognizing Planned, Multiperson Action,
CVIU(81), No. 3, March 2001, pp. 414-445.
WWW Version. 0001 BibRef

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.], and Bobick, A.F.[Aaron F.],
A Framework for Recognizing Multi-Agent Action from Visual Evidence,
AAAI-99(xx) BibRef 9900
And: Vismod--489, April 1999.
PDF Version. BibRef

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.],
Visual recognition of multi-agent action,
Ph.D.Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1999.
HTML Version. BibRef 9909

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.], Bobick, A.F.[Aaron F.],
Visual Recognition of Multi-agent Action Using Binary Temporal Relations,
CVPR99(I: 56-62).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference.
WWW Version. BibRef 9900
And:
Representation and Visual Recognition of Complex, Multi-Agent Actions Using Belief Networks,
DARPA98(285-292). BibRef
And: Vismod--454, January 1998.
Postscript Version. See also Real Time Closed World Tracking. BibRef

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.], Bobick, A.F.[Aaron F.],
Exploiting Contextual Information for Tracking by Using Closed Worlds,
Context95(xx) BibRef 9500

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.], Davis, J.W., Bobick, A.F.,
Real Time Closed World Tracking,
CVPR97(697-703).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference.
WWW Version. 9704 BibRef
And: Vismod-403, 1997.
HTML Version. and
Postscript Version. Background difference clusters, bounding rectangle --people See also Visual Recognition of Multi-agent Action Using Binary Temporal Relations. BibRef

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.], Bobick, A.F.[Aaron F.],
Closed-World Tracking,
ICCV95(672-678).
IEEE DOI Reference
WWW Version. BibRef 9500
And:
Visual Tracking Using Closed-Worlds,
Vismod-294, November 1994.
HTML Version. and
Postscript Version. Tracking multiple objects (football players in a video sequence). Impressive video.
HTML Version. BibRef

Intille, S.S.[Stephen S.],
Tracking Using a Local Closed-World Assumption: Tracking in the Football Domain,
M.S. Thesis, Vismod-296, August 1994.
HTML Version. and
Postscript Version. BibRef 9408

Ekin, A., Tekalp, A.M., Mehrotra, R.,
Automatic soccer video analysis and summarization,
IP(12), No. 7, July 2003, pp. 796-807.
IEEE DOI Reference 0308 BibRef
Earlier:
Integrated semantic-syntactic video event modeling for search and retrieval,
ICIP02(I: 141-144).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0210 BibRef
Earlier:
Automatic Extraction of Low-level Object Motion Descriptors,
ICIP01(II: 633-636).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0108 BibRef

Lu, H.[Hong], Tan, Y.P.[Yap-Peng],
Unsupervised clustering of dominant scenes in sports video,
PRL(24), No. 15, November 2003, pp. 2651-2662.
WWW Version. 0308 BibRef
Earlier: A2, A1:
Model-based clustering and analysis of video scenes,
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IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0210 BibRef

Denman, H., Rea, N., Kokaram, A.,
Content-Based Analysis for Video from Snooker Broadcasts,
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WWW Version. 0311 BibRef
Earlier: CIVR02(198-205).
HTML Version. 0208 BibRef

Assfalg, J.[Jürgen], Bertini, M.[Marco], Colombo, C.[Carlo], del Bimbo, A.[Alberto], Nunziati, W.[Walter],
Semantic annotation of soccer videos: automatic highlights identification,
CVIU(92), No. 2-3, November-December 2003, pp. 285-305.
WWW Version. 0311 BibRef
Earlier:
Automatic extraction and annotation of soccer video highlights,
ICIP03(II: 527-530).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0312 BibRef
And:
Highlight extraction in soccer videos,
CIAP03(498-503).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0310 BibRef

Bertini, M.[Marco], del Bimbo, A.[Alberto], Nunziati, W.[Walter],
Soccer Videos Highlight Prediction and Annotation in Real Time,
CIAP05(637-644).
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Luo, Y.[Ying], Wu, T.D.[Tzong-Der], Hwang, J.N.[Jenq-Neng],
Object-based analysis and interpretation of human motion in sports video sequences by dynamic bayesian networks,
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WWW Version. 0311 BibRef

Luo, Y.[Ying], Hwang, J.N.[Jenq-Neng],
Video Sequence Modeling by Dynamic Bayesian Networks: A Systematic Approach from Coarse-to-Fine Grains,
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Hwang, J.N.[Jenq-Neng], Tseng, Y.H.[Yen-Hao],
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Xie, L.[Lexing], Xu, P.[Peng], Chang, S.F.[Shih-Fu], Divakaran, A.[Ajay], Sun, H.F.[Hui-Fang],
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PRL(25), No. 7, May 2004, pp. 767-775.
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Xiong, Z.[Ziyou], Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A.,
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Zhong, D.[Di], Chang, S.F.[Shih-Fu],
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WWW Version. 0711Video indexing; Content-based video retrieval; Sports video analysis; MPEG-7 BibRef

Lien, C.C.[Cheng-Chang], Chiang, C.L.[Chiu-Lung], Lee, C.H.[Chang-Hsing],
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JVCIR(18), No. 1, February 2007, pp. 1-14.
WWW Version. 0711Video shot; Semantic scene; Baseball event; Hidden Markov model BibRef

Li, B.X.[Bao-Xin], Errico, J.H.[James H.], Pan, H.[Hao], Sezan, M.I.[M. Ibrahim],
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Li, B.X.[Bao-Xin], and Sezan, M.I.[M. Ibrahim],
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Earlier:
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CVPR01(Demos 29-30). 0110 BibRef
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Leonardi, R., Migliorati, P., Prandini, M.,
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Earlier:
Semantic indexing of sports program sequences by audio-visual analysis,
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Gong, Y.H.[Yi-Hong], Han, M.[Mei], Hua, W.[Wei], Xu, W.[Wei],
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de Meneses, Y.L., Roduit, P., Luisier, F., Jacot, J.,
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Xu, M.[Ming], Orwell, J., Jones, G.,
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Earlier:
Real-time 3D Football Ball Tracking from Multiple Cameras,
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Renno, J.R., Orwell, J., Thirde, D., Jones, G.A.,
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Sadlier, D.A., O'Connor, N.E.,
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Xu, G.[Gu], Ma, Y.F.[Yu-Fei], Zhang, H.J.[Hong-Jiang], Yang, S.Q.A.[Shi-Qi-Ang],
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Figueroa, P.J., Leite, N.J., Barros, R.M.L., Cohen, I., Medioni, G.,
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Rodríguez, T.[Tomás], Reid, I.D.[Ian D.], Horaud, R.[Radu], Dalal, N.[Navneet], Goetz, M.[Marcelo],
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Lu, H., Andrade, E.L., Woods, J.C., Ghanbari, M., Henning, I.,
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Piriou, G.[Gwenaëlle], Bouthemy, P.[Patrick], Yao, J.F.[Jian-Feng],
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Robust Highlight Extraction Using Multi-Stream Hidden Markov Models for Baseball Video,
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