A Novel LiDAR-Camera Fused Player Tracking System in Soccer ScenariosShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IEEE Sensors Journal, ISSN 1530-437X, E-ISSN 1558-1748, Vol. 24, no 9, p. 15630-15642Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Localization and tracking in multiplayer sports present significant challenges. Existing global positioning system (GPS) and ultra wideband (UWB)-based methods have higher accuracy but require players to wear inconvenient electronic devices. On the other hand, camera-based solutions are device-free, but have unsatisfied accuracy and necessitate significant manual intervention. Thus, we introduced a light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-camera fused system tailored for soccer scenarios, which can combine highest position accuracy and convenient application. With this continuous data collection system, a new benchmark dataset is constructed, and a simple and effective tracking-by-detection method is designed. The method comprises two main modules. The cascade PointNet module effectively identifies players from the point cloud, while the subsequent Tracklet-Zoom module efficiently performs tracklet association. Our method shows significant improvements in multiple evaluation metrics compared with other methods. Specifically, we achieved a score of 95.21% on the GT-consistency metric, representing a 13.29% increase. This indicates that our method has made substantial progress toward achieving automated tracking.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. Vol. 24, no 9, p. 15630-15642
Keywords [en]
Detection, light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-camera fused, soccer, tracking
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-348141DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3379990ISI: 001219652600183Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85189556926OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-348141DiVA, id: diva2:1874369
Note
QC 20240620
2024-06-202024-06-202024-06-20Bibliographically approved