Robust Golf Club Tracking

Project Summary

The goal of this project was to elaborate a computer vision based method for the automatic tracking of golf clubs. It can provide additional information to the users such as club trajectory, speed and acceleration.

We developed a new visual tracking technology that relies on the use of a global motion model to achieve robustness. The challenging problem of retrieving the club head trajectory from ordinary video sequences of golf swings is a good application to demonstrate the effectiveness of this new approach. We have integrated it into a fully automated system that requires neither user intervention nor the use of instrumented golf club or clothing, and that is usable in a natural environment with a potentially cluttered background. Our algorithm robustly fits a global swing trajectory model to club location hypotheses obtained from single frames. This process makes our approach very robust.

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Color-coded swing trajectories showing the local speed of the club head in terms of different speed ranges.

Relevant Publications

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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland, 2024.

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Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

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No Last One

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Revue Matières. 2024. num. 18.

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Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis; Zurich: Lars Müller, 2024.

Field Guide to Northern Tree-related Microhabitats: Descriptions and size limits for their inventory in boreal and hemiboreal forests of Europe and North America

R. Bütler Sauvain; L. Larrieu; L. F. Lunde; M. Maxence; B. Nordén et al. 

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland, 2024.

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability

M. S. P. Cubero-Castan; M. Peon Quiros; C. Gabella; F. Varrato; Loïc Lannelongue 

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability, EPFL, CM 1 221, April 18, 2024.

Comparison of Three Viral Nucleic Acid Preamplification Pipelines for Sewage Viral Metagenomics

X. Fernandez Cassi; T. Kohn 

Food and Environmental Virology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s12560-024-09594-3.

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Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2024.

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Revue Matières. 2024. num. 18.

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Contacts

Vincent Lepetit [email]