Mitigating Motion Blur for Robust 3D Baseball Player Pose Modeling for Pitch Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01010v1
• Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 19:42:59 GMT
• Title: Mitigating Motion Blur for Robust 3D Baseball Player Pose Modeling for Pitch Analysis
• Authors: Jerrin Bright, Yuhao Chen, John Zelek
• Abstract summary: We propose a synthetic data augmentation pipeline to enhance the model's capability to deal with the pitcher's blurry actions. We observe a notable reduction in the loss by 54.2% and 36.2% on the test dataset for 2D and 3D pose estimation respectively.
• Score: 5.010690651107531
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Using videos to analyze pitchers in baseball can play a vital role in strategizing and injury prevention. Computer vision-based pose analysis offers a time-efficient and cost-effective approach. However, the use of accessible broadcast videos, with a 30fps framerate, often results in partial body motion blur during fast actions, limiting the performance of existing pose keypoint estimation models. Previous works have primarily relied on fixed backgrounds, assuming minimal motion differences between frames, or utilized multiview data to address this problem. To this end, we propose a synthetic data augmentation pipeline to enhance the model's capability to deal with the pitcher's blurry actions. In addition, we leverage in-the-wild videos to make our model robust under different real-world conditions and camera positions. By carefully optimizing the augmentation parameters, we observed a notable reduction in the loss by 54.2% and 36.2% on the test dataset for 2D and 3D pose estimation respectively. By applying our approach to existing state-of-the-art pose estimators, we demonstrate an average improvement of 29.2%. The findings highlight the effectiveness of our method in mitigating the challenges posed by motion blur, thereby enhancing the overall quality of pose estimation.

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