Validation of a live, automatic ball velocity and spin rate finder in tennis

Software designed to quickly and easily calculate the 3-dimensional speed and the spin rate of a tennis ball from high speed video footage from a single camera was validated. The software values were compared to speed values from light gates and spin rate values found by manually tracking the ball logo. The respective ranges were 18-31ms-1 and 65-165rad[dot operator]s-1. The speed values had a mean percentage error of 4.47% (1.08ms-1). The spin rate values had a mean percentage error of 4.14% (4.71rad[dot operator]s-1).
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Notations:sport games sports facilities and sports equipment
Tagging:Spin
Published in:Procedia Engineering
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B9869-508WXJK-3D/2/3233a545d8c0c87617ca78937be526b9
Volume:2
Issue:2
Pages:2967-2972
Document types:article
Level:advanced