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Prediction of Foul Ball Falling Spot in a Base Ball Game

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005)

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In baseball games, foul balls sometimes fly into the spectators seats. Some person can be seriously wounded for those balls. This research aims at developing a system which computes the orbit of a foul ball on real time using camera, predicts of the spot where foul balls fall and informs spectators about its danger. Detection of balls consists of the following three steps: At first each frame is processed using a smoothing filter for noise reduction. Next, temporal Laplacian is carried out for a series of those filtered images. Finally, whether a part of a ball or not is judged for each pixel by translating the resultant images into polar coordinates. The pitching motion is also considered. We report a method for prediction of foul ball falling spot with fuzzy inference.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, Takuma National College of Technology, 551 Kouda, Takuma-cho, Mitoyo-gun, Japan

    Hideyuki Takajo

  2. Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Tokushima University, 2-1 Minami-Josanjima, Tokushima, Japan

    Minoru Fukumi & Norio Akamatsu

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  1. Hideyuki Takajo
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  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Takajo, H., Fukumi, M., Akamatsu, N. (2005). Prediction of Foul Ball Falling Spot in a Base Ball Game. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3681. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552413_179

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11552413_179

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