@inproceedings{bcb1f6d5629b4110a0433d706d9294cb,
title = "Extraction and representation of human body for pitching style recognition in broadcast baseball video",
abstract = "In baseball games, different release points of pitchers form several kinds of pitching styles. Different pitching styles possess individual advantages. This paper presents a novel pitching style recognition approach for automatic generation of game information and video annotation. First, an effective object segmentation algorithm is designed to compute the body contour and extract the pitcher's body. Then, star skeleton is used as the representative descriptor of the pitcher posture for pitching style recognition. The proposed approach has been tested on broadcast baseball video and the promising experimental results validate the robustness and practicability.",
keywords = "object segmentation, sports video analysis",
author = "Chen, {Hua Tsung} and Chou, {Chien Li} and Tsai, {W. J.} and Lee, {Suh Yin} and Yu, {Jen Yu}",
year = "2011",
month = nov,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1109/ICME.2011.6011840",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781612843490",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo",
booktitle = "Electronic Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2011",
note = "2011 12th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2011 ; Conference date: 11-07-2011 Through 15-07-2011",
}