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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-27 15:20:15 (GMT)
dc.date.available2008-08-27 15:20:15 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2008-08-27T15:20:15Z
dc.date.submitted2008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/3904
dc.description.abstractWe analyze videos in which a hand interacts with a basketball. In this work, we present a computational system which detects and classifies hand-ball events, given the trajectories of a hand and ball. Our approach is to determine non-gravitational parts of the ball's motion using only the motion of the hand as a reliable cue for hand-ball events. This thesis makes three contributions. First, we show that hand motion can be segmented using piecewise fifth-order polynomials inspired by work in motor control. We make the remarkable experimental observation that hand-ball events have a phenomenal correspondence to the segmentation breakpoints. Second, by fitting a context-dependent gravitational model to the ball over an adaptive window, we can isolate places where the hand is causing non-gravitational motion of the ball. Finally, given a precise segmentation, we use the measured velocity steps (force impulses) on the ball to detect and classify various event types.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectMachine Visionen
dc.subjectHuman Activity Recognitionen
dc.titleDetecting Hand-Ball Events in Videoen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalseen
dc.subject.programComputer Scienceen
uws-etd.degree.departmentSchool of Computer Scienceen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Mathematicsen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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