The VAR (video assistant referee) technologies have recently been developed for various sports. The billiards is a sport that is accessible to everyone, regardless of professional players and amateurs.The proposed method includes the pool table detection based on digital image processing. The effects of environments such as illumination and noise are minimized. For video analysis, proposed algorithm was implemented to detect cue-ball and object ball by analyzing color information with adaptive thresholds.We developed a billiard ball motion detection algorithm that can be applied to video reading systems in billiards games. They also found ways to distinguish the color of billiard balls in environments where continuous movement occurs.Experiments have shown that the proposed method effectively detects billiard balls from the images, and the billiard ball detection algorithm proposed in this paper is applicable to video reading systems used in billiards games.
Volume 11 | 06-Special Issue
Pages: 2005-2009