Identifying Sport Types and Postures with Complex Background by Fusion of Local Descriptors

Sport type classification and posture identification based on visual meaning of posture semantic in still images are challenging tasks. The difficulty of these tasks comes from the complex image content consisting of a player's posture, the color and texture of a player's clothes as well as complexity of the background. Player detection is one of the most important tasks in posture identification. For sport type classification without object segmentation, the new set of features, based on 64-bins color histogram, DCT coefficients, and Cb and Cr components, is introduced. To achieve high accuracy, an appropriate feature extraction technique should be also realized. For posture identification, three algorithms, concerning player region detection and suitable features for posture identification, are proposed namely blurred background elimination, irrelevant region elimination, and trimming players region. The DFT coefficients, based on image resizing and slicing techniques, are used as significant features in posture identification. Our proposed features were compared with Edge Histogram and Region-based Shape (EH and RS), two of MPEG-7 descriptors. The experimental results showed that our proposed features yielded better performance with 85.76% of accuracy in sport classification and 86.66% of accuracy in posture identification.

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