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most citedEvoPose2D: Pushing the Boundaries of 2D Human Pose Estimation using Accelerated Neuroevolution with Weight Transfer

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cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Player Tracking and Identification in Ice Hockey

Kanav Vats, Pascale Walters, Mehrnaz Fani +2

Tracking and identifying players is a fundamental step in computer vision-based ice hockey analytics. The data generated by tracking is used in many other downstream tasks, such as…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Ice hockey player identification via transformers and weakly supervised learning

Kanav Vats, William McNally, Pascale Walters +2

Identifying players in video is a foundational step in computer vision-based sports analytics. Obtaining player identities is essential for analyzing the game and is used in downst…

cs.CV2021

Rethinking Keypoint Representations: Modeling Keypoints and Poses as Objects for Multi-Person Human Pose Estimation

William McNally, Kanav Vats, Alexander Wong +1

In keypoint estimation tasks such as human pose estimation, heatmap-based regression is the dominant approach despite possessing notable drawbacks: heatmaps intrinsically suffer fr…

cs.CV2021

Multi-task learning for jersey number recognition in Ice Hockey

Kanav Vats, Mehrnaz Fani, David A. Clausi +1

Identifying players in sports videos by recognizing their jersey numbers is a challenging task in computer vision. We have designed and implemented a multi-task learning network fo…

cs.CV2021

Puck localization and multi-task event recognition in broadcast hockey videos

Kanav Vats, Mehrnaz Fani, David A. Clausi +1

Puck localization is an important problem in ice hockey video analytics useful for analyzing the game, determining play location, and assessing puck possession. The problem is chal…

cs.CV2021

DeepDarts: Modeling Keypoints as Objects for Automatic Scorekeeping in Darts using a Single Camera

William McNally, Pascale Walters, Kanav Vats +2

Existing multi-camera solutions for automatic scorekeeping in steel-tip darts are very expensive and thus inaccessible to most players. Motivated to develop a more accessible low-c…