Rally Counting Method Integrating Image and Audio Processing Based on Table Tennis Match Video Characteristics
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a method for automatically estimating the number of rallies in table tennis match videos as part of improving the efficiency of play analysis. By using this method, the manual effort previously required for recording rally counts can be eliminated. The analysis assumes a vertically oriented camera view, as commonly seen in broadcast footage. Since the ball in the lower court may be occluded by players, only the upper court is analyzed. The ball in the upper court is detected by analyzing the pixel value differences between the ball and the table. The number of rallies is measured by counting the number of times a ball hit by a player passes through the upper court. To ensure accurate counting, hit balls are distinguished from high‐toss serves and failures due to the net. Experimental results show that the proposed method correctly counted the number of rallies in 87.0% of 623 scenes from Japanese T‐League match videos. Furthermore, when the existing scoring/losing rate calculation method was applied to the automatically measured rally counts, the results closely matched those obtained from manually recorded rally counts, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed rally counting method. Large‐scale quantitative analysis becomes feasible through automated processing.
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Multicolour fluorescence imaging by STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) superresolution microscopy with doughnut-shaped STED laser beams based on different wavelengths for each colour channel requires precise image registration. This is especially important when STED imaging is used for co-localisation studies of two or more native proteins in biological specimens to analyse nanometric subcellular spatial arrangements. We developed a robust postprocessing image registration protocol, with the aim to verify and ultimately optimise multicolour STED image quality. Importantly, this protocol will support any subsequent quantitative localisation analysis at nanometric scales. Henceforth, using an approach that registers each colour channel present during STED imaging individually, this protocol reliably corrects for optical aberrations and inadvertent sample drift. To achieve the latter goal, the protocol combines the experimental sample information, from corresponding STED and confocal images using the same optical beam path and setup, with that of an independent calibration sample. As a result, image registration is based on a strategy that maximises the cross-correlation between sequentially acquired images of the experimental sample, which are strategically combined by the protocol. We demonstrate the general applicability of the image registration protocol by co-staining of the ryanodine receptor calcium release channel in primary mouse cardiomyocytes. To validate this new approach, we identify user-friendly criteria, which - if fulfilled - support optimal image registration. In summary, we introduce a new method for image registration and rationally based postprocessing steps through a highly standardised protocol for multicolour STED imaging, which directly supports the reproducibility of protein co-localisation analyses. Although the reference protocol is discussed exemplarily for two-colour STED imaging, it can be readily expanded to three or more colours and STED channels.
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Computer-aided information technologies for medical image processing were developed to increase the accuracy and reliability of early lung and breast cancer diagnosis. These technologies include: a) optimal methods of image processing to emphasise diagnostically important patterns and parts in lung tomograms and mammograms; b) methods of quantitative image analysis to classify the objects of interest; c) verified methodologies for optimal image processing and quantitative analysis; d) a manual with examples of the processed images, description of steps for their analysis with true diagnostic decisions.
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- 10.1145/3633516
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- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
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In recent years, a large number of applications have been developed for image processing systems in the area of biological imaging. We have already finished the development of a dedicated microcomputer-based image processing and analysis system for quantitative microscopy. The system's primary function has been to facilitate and ultimately automate quantitative image analysis tasks such as the measurement of cellular DNA contents. We have recognized from this development experience, and interaction with system users, biologists and technicians, that the increasingly widespread use of image processing systems, and the development and application of new techniques for utilizing the capabilities of such systems, would generate a need for some kind of inexpensive general purpose image acquisition and processing system specially tailored for the needs of the medical community. We are currently engaged in the development and testing of hardware and software for a fairly high-performance image processing computer system based on a popular personal computer. In this paper, we describe the design and development of this system. Biological image processing computer systems have now reached a level of hardware and software refinement where they could become convenient image analysis tools for biologists. The development of a general purpose image processing system for quantitative image analysis that is inexpensive, flexible, and easy-to-use represents a significant step towards making the microscopic digital image processing techniques more widely applicable not only in a research environment as a biologist's workstation, but also in clinical environments as a diagnostic tool.
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- 10.1016/b978-0-12-407761-4.00014-2
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- 10.1074/mcp.m112.026138
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- 10.1142/s0129065715500331
- Nov 20, 2015
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