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Communication Dans Un Congrès International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports Année : 2022

Efficient tracking of team sport players with few game-specific annotations

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One of the requirements for team sports analysis is to track and recognize players. Many tracking and reidentification methods have been proposed in the context of video surveillance. They show very convincing results when tested on public datasets such as the MOT challenge. However, the performance of these methods are not as satisfactory when applied to player tracking. Indeed, in addition to moving very quickly and often being occluded, the players wear the same jersey, which makes the task of reidentification very complex. Some recent tracking methods have been developed more specifically for the team sport context. Due to the lack of public data, these methods use private datasets that make impossible a comparison with them. In this paper, we propose a new generic method to track team sport players during a full game thanks to few human annotations collected via a semi-interactive system. Non-ambiguous tracklets and their appearance features are automatically generated with a detection and a reidentification network both pre-trained on public datasets. Then an incremental learning mechanism trains a Transformer to classify identities using few game-specific human annotations. Finally, tracklets are linked by an association algorithm. We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach on a challenging rugby sevens dataset. To overcome the lack of public sports tracking dataset, we publicly release this dataset at https://kalisteo.cea.fr/index.php/free-resources/. We also show that our method is able to track rugby sevens players during a full match, if they are observable at a minimal resolution, with the annotation of only 6 few seconds length tracklets per player.
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cea-03789225 , version 1 (30-09-2022)

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Adrien Maglo, Astrid Orcesi, Quoc-Cuong Pham. Efficient tracking of team sport players with few game-specific annotations. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), IEEE, Jun 2022, New orleans, United States. pp.3461-3471, ⟨10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00390⟩. ⟨cea-03789225⟩
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