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Pitching a baseball: tracking high-speed motion with multi-exposure images

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Christian Theobalt,

Irene Albrecht,

Hans-Peter SeidelAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '04: ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers

Pages 540 - 547

https://doi.org/10.1145/1186562.1015758

Published: 01 August 2004 Publication History

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Athletes and coaches in most professional sports make use of high-tech equipment to analyze and, subsequently, improve the athlete's performance. High-speed video cameras are employed, for instance, to record the swing of a golf club or a tennis racket, the movement of the feet while running, and the body motion in apparatus gymnastics. High-tech and high-speed equipment, however, usually implies high-cost as well. In this paper, we present a passive optical approach to capture high-speed motion using multi-exposure images obtained with low-cost commodity still cameras and a stroboscope. The recorded motion remains completely undisturbed by the motion capture process. We apply our approach to capture the motion of hand and ball for a variety of baseball pitches and present algorithms to automatically track the position, velocity, rotation axis, and spin of the ball along its trajectory. To demonstrate the validity of our setup and algorithms, we analyze the consistency of our measurements with a physically based model that predicts the trajectory of a spinning baseball. Our approach can be applied to capture a wide variety of other high-speed objects and activities such as golfing, bowling, or tennis for visualization as well as analysis purposes.

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Pitching a baseball: tracking high-speed motion with multi-exposure images
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
      1. Motion capture
      2. Motion processing

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