Search Results for author: John Zelek

Found 24 papers, 4 papers with code

Domain-Guided Masked Autoencoders for Unique Player Identification

no code implementations17 Mar 2024 Bavesh Balaji, Jerrin Bright, Sirisha Rambhatla, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong, John Zelek, David A Clausi

We further introduce a new spatio-temporal network leveraging our novel d-MAE for unique player identification.

Sports Analytics

Distribution and Depth-Aware Transformers for 3D Human Mesh Recovery

no code implementations14 Mar 2024 Jerrin Bright, Bavesh Balaji, Harish Prakash, Yuhao Chen, David A Clausi, John Zelek

Precise Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) with in-the-wild data is a formidable challenge and is often hindered by depth ambiguities and reduced precision.

Human Mesh Recovery

A Unified Model Selection Technique for Spectral Clustering Based Motion Segmentation

no code implementations3 Mar 2024 Yuxiang Huang, John Zelek

Motion segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and is crucial in various applications such as robotics, autonomous driving and action recognition.

Action Recognition Autonomous Driving +4

Motion Segmentation from a Moving Monocular Camera

no code implementations24 Sep 2023 Yuxiang Huang, John Zelek

We then construct two robust affinity matrices representing the pairwise object motion affinities throughout the whole video using epipolar geometry and the motion information provided by optical flow.

Clustering Motion Segmentation +3

Jersey Number Recognition using Keyframe Identification from Low-Resolution Broadcast Videos

no code implementations12 Sep 2023 Bavesh Balaji, Jerrin Bright, Harish Prakash, Yuhao Chen, David A Clausi, John Zelek

To address these issues, we propose a robust keyframe identification module that extracts frames containing essential high-level information about the jersey number.

Mitigating Motion Blur for Robust 3D Baseball Player Pose Modeling for Pitch Analysis

no code implementations2 Sep 2023 Jerrin Bright, Yuhao Chen, John Zelek

The findings highlight the effectiveness of our method in mitigating the challenges posed by motion blur, thereby enhancing the overall quality of pose estimation.

3D Pose Estimation Data Augmentation +1

H-SLAM: Hybrid Direct-Indirect Visual SLAM

1 code implementation12 Jun 2023 Georges Younes, Douaa Khalil, John Zelek, Daniel Asmar

The recent success of hybrid methods in monocular odometry has led to many attempts to generalize the performance gains to hybrid monocular SLAM.

Text Detection & Recognition in the Wild for Robot Localization

no code implementations17 May 2022 Zobeir Raisi, John Zelek

Our central contribution is introducing utilizing an end-to-end scene text spotting framework to adequately capture the irregular and occluded text regions in different challenging places.

Text Detection Text Spotting +1

Arbitrary Shape Text Detection using Transformers

no code implementations22 Feb 2022 Zobeir Raisi, Georges Younes, John Zelek

At its core, our proposed method leverages a bounding box loss function that accurately measures the arbitrary detected text regions' changes in scale and aspect ratio.

Text Detection

Player Tracking and Identification in Ice Hockey

no code implementations6 Oct 2021 Kanav Vats, Pascale Walters, Mehrnaz Fani, David A. Clausi, John Zelek

The player identification model further takes advantage of the available NHL game roster data to obtain a player identification accuracy of 83%.

Event Detection Multi-Object Tracking

Multi-task learning for jersey number recognition in Ice Hockey

no code implementations17 Aug 2021 Kanav Vats, Mehrnaz Fani, David A. Clausi, John Zelek

Identifying players in sports videos by recognizing their jersey numbers is a challenging task in computer vision.

Multi-Task Learning

Puck localization and multi-task event recognition in broadcast hockey videos

no code implementations21 May 2021 Kanav Vats, Mehrnaz Fani, David A. Clausi, John Zelek

In this paper, we introduce and implement a network for puck localization in broadcast hockey video.

Multi-Task Learning

Localization of Ice-Rink for Broadcast Hockey Videos

no code implementations22 Apr 2021 Mehrnaz Fani, Pascale Berunelle Walters, David A. Clausi, John Zelek, Alexander Wong

To localize the frames on the ice-rink model, a ResNet18-based regressor is implemented and trained, which regresses to four control points on the model in a frame-by-frame fashion.

Homography Estimation

Text Detection and Recognition in the Wild: A Review

1 code implementation8 Jun 2020 Zobeir Raisi, Mohamed A. Naiel, Paul Fieguth, Steven Wardell, John Zelek

Thus, unlike previous surveys in this field, the objectives of this survey are as follows: first, offering the reader not only a review on the recent advancement in scene text detection and recognition, but also presenting the results of conducting extensive experiments using a unified evaluation framework that assesses pre-trained models of the selected methods on challenging cases, and applies the same evaluation criteria on these techniques.

Autonomous Driving Scene Text Detection +1

Event detection in coarsely annotated sports videos via parallel multi receptive field 1D convolutions

no code implementations13 Apr 2020 Kanav Vats, Mehrnaz Fani, Pascale Walters, David A. Clausi, John Zelek

Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the network by obtaining a 55% average F1 score on the NHL dataset and by achieving competitive performance compared to the state of the art on the SoccerNet dataset.

Action Spotting Event Detection

PuckNet: Estimating hockey puck location from broadcast video

no code implementations11 Dec 2019 Kanav Vats, William McNally, Chris Dulhanty, Zhong Qiu Lin, David A. Clausi, John Zelek

The network is able to regress the puck location from broadcast hockey video clips with varying camera angles.

KPTransfer: improved performance and faster convergence from keypoint subset-wise domain transfer in human pose estimation

no code implementations24 Mar 2019 Kanav Vats, Helmut Neher, Alexander Wong, David A. Clausi, John Zelek

This approach is motivated by the notion that rich contextual knowledge can be transferred between different keypoint subsets representing separate domains.

Keypoint Detection

A Unified Formulation for Visual Odometry

no code implementations11 Mar 2019 Georges Younes, Daniel Asmar, John Zelek

Monocular Odometry systems can be broadly categorized as being either Direct, Indirect, or a hybrid of both.

Depth Estimation Visual Odometry

Temporal Hockey Action Recognition via Pose and Optical Flows

no code implementations22 Dec 2018 Zixi Cai, Helmut Neher, Kanav Vats, David Clausi, John Zelek

Third, pose and optical flow streams are fused and passed to fully-connected layers to estimate the hockey player's action.

Action Recognition Optical Flow Estimation +3

FDMO: Feature Assisted Direct Monocular Odometry

no code implementations15 Apr 2018 Georges Younes, Daniel Asmar, John Zelek

Visual Odometry (VO) can be categorized as being either direct or feature based.

Visual Odometry

Keyframe-based monocular SLAM: design, survey, and future directions

1 code implementation2 Jul 2016 Georges Younes, Daniel Asmar, Elie Shammas, John Zelek

Extensive research in the field of monocular SLAM for the past fifteen years has yielded workable systems that found their way into various applications in robotics and augmented reality.

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