EPFL's Computer Vision Laboratory has developed an advanced system for continuous tracking of athletes on the field as well as passers bye on the street without the need for RFID tags, even when the subjects overlap or are hidden. more information can be found in our ICCV'11 paper: "Tracking Multiple People under Global Appearance Constraints" Horesh BenShitrit, Jérôme Berclaz, François Fleuret, Pascal Fua. and in our website: http://cvlab.epfl.ch/research/body/surv/
multiple camera basketball players detection and tracking.
Results of number detection in our lab, The results are quite good, notice that there are two errors in frames 54,55 ( The T does look like 7 )
using random transformation and affine transformation estimation
Second video
This video shows the results of the template matching with the affine transformation and without it.. Unfortunatilly, The affine transformation recieves modorate results..
Part of doctoral project at the CVLAB, EPFL The goal is to recognize the numbers on the players' shirts