Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Tennis Vision

If your other interests, (besides machine vision, that is,) include tennis, last year you may have noticed a vision system being used at Wimbledon to determine when the ball is “in”. Now, if you stop to think about it, such a system must have some margin of error – it’s the old false reject versus false accept conundrum – so there must be a possibility of the system making a bad call.

Turns out some smart folks at Cardiff University have taken a look at this and decided that yes, the system can get it wrong. Use this link to
Dobbs Code Talk to learn more about the issue.

1 comment:

L. Venkata Subramaniam said...

do you know the numbers? I mean how many false positives and negatives?

yup machine vision is entering sports in a big way these days.