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Detection and tracking of ice-hockey pucks are of interest to sports industry as it allows puck highlighting during broadcast. This paper presents the first attempt at using image processing to detect and track ice-hockey pucks. The technique developed consists of using three pieces of information in ice-hockey video frames. A combination of adaptive gray-level thresholding, adaptive temporal thresholding, and trajectory constraints is used to detect and track pucks. The analysis performed indicates the difficulties of this detection problem when using ice-hockey broadcast video sequences. A comparison of the developed technique is provided with table tennis broadcast video sequences to demonstrate its effectiveness.







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This study was jointly sponsored by the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
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Yakut, M., Kehtarnavaz, N. Ice-hockey puck detection and tracking for video highlighting. SIViP 10, 527–533 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-015-0764-6
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