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Ice hockey shooting event modeling with mixture hidden Markov model

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In this paper we present a new event analysis framework based on mixture hidden Markov model (HMM) for ice hockey videos. Hockey is a competitive sport and hockey videos are hard to analyze because of the homogeneity of its frame features. However, the temporal dynamics of hockey videos is highly structured. Using the mixture representation of local observations and Markov chain property of hockey event structure, we successfully model the hockey event as a mixture HMM. Based on the mixture HMM, the hockey event could be classified with high accuracy. Two types of mixture HMMs, Gaussian mixture and independent component analysis (ICA) mixture, are compared for the hockey video event classification. The results confirm our analysis that the mixture HMM is a suitable model to deal with videos with intensive activities. The new mixture HMM hockey event model could be a very useful tool for hockey game analysis.

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Parts of this article also appeared in the Proc. of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Events in Multimedia (EiMM09) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009, October 19–24, 2009, Beijing, China.

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Wang, X., Zhang, XP. Ice hockey shooting event modeling with mixture hidden Markov model. Multimed Tools Appl 57, 131–144 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0722-9

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