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We present a deep-dive into a real-world robotic learning system that, in previous work, was shown to be capable of hundreds of table tennis rallies with a human and has the ability to precisely return the ball to desired targets. This…

Computer Vision developments are enabling significant advances in many fields, including sports. Many applications built on top of Computer Vision technologies, such as tracking data, are nowadays essential for every top-level analyst,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Tiago Mendes-Neves , Luís Meireles , João Mendes-Moreira

Learning to control high-speed objects in dynamic environments represents a fundamental challenge in robotics. Table tennis serves as an ideal testbed for advancing robotic capabilities in dynamic environments. This task presents two…

Given an image sequence featuring a portion of a sports field filmed by a moving and uncalibrated camera, such as the one of the smartphones, our goal is to compute automatically in real time the focal length and extrinsic camera parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Leonardo Citraro , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Stefano Savarè , Vivek Jayaram , Charles Dubout , Félix Renaut , Andrés Hasfura , Horesh Ben Shitrit , Pascal Fua

Sports professionals constantly under pressure to perform at the highest level can benefit from sports analysis, which allows coaches and players to reduce manual efforts and systematically evaluate their performance using automated tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yu-Hang Chien , Fang Yu

This paper represents an analysis on the momentum of tennis match. And due to Generalization performance of it, it can be helpful in constructing a system to predict the result of sports game and analyze the performance of player based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jingdi Lei , Tianqi Kang , Yuluan Cao , Shiwei Ren

Recent advances of deep learning makes it possible to identify specific events in videos with greater precision. This has great relevance in sports like tennis in order to e.g., automatically collect game statistics, or replay actions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Emil Hovad , Therese Hougaard-Jensen , Line Katrine Harder Clemmensen

This work introduces and demonstrates the first system capable of imaging fast-moving extended non-rigid objects through strong atmospheric turbulence at high frame rate. Event cameras are a novel sensing architecture capable of estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yu-Hsiang Huang , Levi Burner , Sachin Shah , Ziyuan Qu , Adithya Pediredla , Christopher A. Metzler

Existing humanoid table tennis systems remain limited by their reliance on external sensing and their inability to achieve agile whole-body coordination for precise task execution. These limitations stem from two core challenges: achieving…

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Antoni Rosinol Vidal , Henri Rebecq , Timo Horstschaefer , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper proposes a fusion method of modalities extracted from video through a three-stream network with spatio-temporal and temporal convolutions for fine-grained action classification in sport. It is applied to TTStroke-21 dataset which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Pierre-Etienne Martin , Jenny Benois-Pineau , Renaud Péteri , Julien Morlier

In contrast to traditional cameras, whose pixels have a common exposure time, event-based cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors whose pixels work independently and asynchronously output intensity changes (called "events"), with microsecond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timo Stoffregen , Guillermo Gallego , Tom Drummond , Lindsay Kleeman , Davide Scaramuzza

Wearable technology has transformed sports analytics, offering new dimensions in enhancing player experience. Yet, many solutions involve cumbersome setups that inhibit natural motion. In tennis, existing products require sensors on the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Junyong Park , Saelyne Yang , Sungho Jo

We challenged to get data about hand movement in pen spinning using MediaPipe Hands and OpenCV. The purpose is to create a system that can be used to objectively evaluate the performance of pen spinning competitions. Evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Tung-Lin Wu , Taishi Senda

A ball can be hit faster if it is projected without spin but it can be hit farther if it is projected with backspin. Measurements are presented in this paper of the tradeoff between speed and spin for a baseball impacting a baseball bat.…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rod Cross , Alan M. Nathan

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in HDR conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, different from traditional frame-based cameras, event cameras measure asynchronous pixel-level brightness changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xin Peng , Yifu Wang , Ling Gao , Laurent Kneip

When a camera travels across a 3D world, only a fraction of pixel value changes; an event-based camera observes the change as sparse events. How can we utilize sparse events for efficient recovery of the camera pose? We show that we can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Mana Masuda , Yusuke Sekikawa , Hideo Saito

Wearables like smartwatches which are embedded with sensors and powerful processors, provide a strong platform for development of analytics solutions in sports domain. To analyze players' games, while motion sensor based shot detection has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Manish Sharma , Akash Anand , Rupika Srivastava , Lakshmi Kaligounder

We present a new method and a large-scale database to detect audio-video synchronization(A/V sync) errors in tennis videos. A deep network is trained to detect the visual signature of the tennis ball being hit by the racquet in the video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Joshua P. Ebenezer , Yongjun Wu , Hai Wei , Sriram Sethuraman , Zongyi Liu

Vision-based perception systems are typically exposed to large orientation changes in different robot applications. In such conditions, their performance might be compromised due to the inherent complexity of processing data captured under…