Content

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   Introduction
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   Goals and Motivations
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   Problem Statement
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   Contributions
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   Thesis Organization
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  Sport Player Tracking Overview
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   Tracking as a Computer Vision Problem
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  State of the Art
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   Background/Foreground Segmentation
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   Encoding Visual Features
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   Multi Target Tracking
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   Evaluation of Tracking Systems
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   Commercial Sport Video Analysis Systems
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   Discussion
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  Deterministic Tracking
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   Blob-based Tracking
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   Template Matching-based Tracking
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   Matching Functions
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   Selection of Template
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   Head Template Update
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   Enhanced Template Matching Algorithm
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   Tracking Algorithm
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   Discussion
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   Probabilistic Tracking
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   Particle Filter
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  Particle Filter-based Player Tracking
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   Modeling the Player
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   Modeling Player Motion Dynamics
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   Color-Based Likelihood Function
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   Tracking Algorithm
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   Discussion
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   Managing Multiple Players
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   The Concept of Closed Worlds and Its Use in Tracking
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   Enhancement by Local Partitioning Strategy
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   Optimizations Based on Closed World Assumptions
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   Discussion
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   Sport Performance Analyzer Software
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   Structure of SPA
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   Software Design
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   Recording Video and Bio-signals Data Module
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   Tracking Module
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   Analysis and Visualization Module
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   Utilities for Testing
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   Discussion
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   Experimental Study
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   Experimental Setup
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   Pre-processing of Video Data
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   Post-processing of Position Data
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   Implementation and Running Times of Pre- and Post- Processing
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   Description of Test Datasets
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   Own Recorded Datasets
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   Own Benchmark Datasets
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   Handball World Cup Dataset
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   Test Quality Criteria Datasets
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   Performance Measurements and Quality Criteria of The Tracking System
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   Performance Measurements
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   Definition of Quality Criteria
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   Definition of Evaluation Hypotheses
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  Results of Template Matching-based Tracking
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   Parameters of Tracking Algorithms
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   Experimental Results
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  Results of Particle Filter-based Tracking
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   Parameters of Tracking Algorithms
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   Experimental Results
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   Implementation and Running Times of Tracking Algorithms
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  Evaluation of Quality Criteria
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   Description of Tests
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   Results of Quality Criteria Tests
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   Evaluation of The Hypotheses
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   Discussion
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  Summary, Conclusions and Future Work
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   Summary and Conclusions
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   Future Work
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   Bibliography
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   Appendices
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  Numerical Results
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   Test 2
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   Test 3
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   Publications