DeepBall: Deep Neural-Network Ball Detector

19 Feb 2019  ·  Jacek Komorowski, Grzegorz Kurzejamski, Grzegorz Sarwas ·

The paper describes a deep network based object detector specialized for ball detection in long shot videos. Due to its fully convolutional design, the method operates on images of any size and produces \emph{ball confidence map} encoding the position of detected ball. The network uses hypercolumn concept, where feature maps from different hierarchy levels of the deep convolutional network are combined and jointly fed to the convolutional classification layer. This allows boosting the detection accuracy as larger visual context around the object of interest is taken into account. The method achieves state-of-the-art results when tested on publicly available ISSIA-CNR Soccer Dataset.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Sports Ball Detection and Tracking Badminton DeepBall F1 (%) 52.4 # 7
Accuracy (%) 38.6 # 7
Average Precision (%) 60.0 # 7
Sports Ball Detection and Tracking Basketball DeepBall F1 (%) 0 # 8
Accuracy (%) 12.9 # 8
Average Precision (%) 0 # 8
Sports Ball Detection and Tracking Soccer DeepBall F1 (%) 44.5 # 7
Average Precision (%) 26.3 # 7
Accuracy (% ) 92.7 # 6
Sports Ball Detection and Tracking Tennis DeepBall F1 (%) 47.4 # 7
Accuracy (%) 32.3 # 7
Average Precision (%) 47.0 # 7
Sports Ball Detection and Tracking Volleyball DeepBall F1 (%) 64.4 # 7
Accuracy (%) 50.7 # 7
Average Precision (%) 49.2 # 7

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