A System for the Automatic Annotation of Tennis Matches

In this paper we describe a system for the automatic annotation of tennis matches. The goal is to provide annotation at all levels, from shot detection to a complete breakdown of the scoring within the match. At present the system will automatically analyse a tennis video to the extent that it can identify the outcome of individual video shots, with reasonable accuracy. We briefly describe the overall system architecture, and describe in more detail the key components: the ball tracking and the high-level reasoning.

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