A high accuracy automatic timing method for photo finish systems

Author

Jianfeng Li ; Yuman Nie ; Min Zhao ; Feng Shuang ; Bo Zhu ; Zhengmao Xie ; Zaijin Feng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 May 2014

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

199

Abstract

In this paper we proposed a high accuracy automatic timing method for photo finish systems, as manual detection is subjective and time-consuming. Athlete objects are detected and extracted automatically, effective interferences elimination algorithm is proposed for torso locating and finish line detection. The effectiveness of this method is verified by 2511 samples from 390 track events´ original image data, and it achieved the accuracy of 82.07% within a tolerance of 2 ms time error. The experiment results show the objectivity and accuracy.

Keywords

object detection; sport; automatic athlete object detection; automatic athlete object extraction; finish line detection; high accuracy automatic timing method; interferences elimination algorithm; photo finish systems; torso locating; Accuracy; Algorithm design and analysis; Head; Interference; Manuals; Timing; Torso; automatic photo finish; body parts detection; line scan image processing; track timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2033-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIC.2014.6972323

Filename

6972323