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ISVC 2019: Advances in Visual Computing pp 481–491Cite as

Tactical Rings: A Visualization Technique for Analyzing Tactical Patterns in Tennis

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Sports data visualization can be a useful tool for analyzing or presenting sports data. In this paper, we present a new technique to visualize and analyze shot-by-shot tactical patterns in tennis. Previous work in tennis data analysis and visualization focus more on high-level statistics and overviews such as heat-maps but did not handle data analytics at micro-level. Our visualization technique can reveal patterns and imbalances in a tennis match that lead to a deeper understanding of the game. We demonstrate the application and benefits of our visualization technique with case studies.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Creative Media Industries Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA

    Shiraj Pokharel & Ying Zhu

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Daniela Ushizima

  6. Latent AI, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Sek Chai

  7. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Shinjiro Sueda

  8. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Xin Lin

  9. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Aidong Lu

  10. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

  11. Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN, USA

    Chaoli Wang

  12. Bosch Research North America, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Panpan Xu

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Pokharel, S., Zhu, Y. (2019). Tactical Rings: A Visualization Technique for Analyzing Tactical Patterns in Tennis. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11845. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33723-0_39

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