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      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010604</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub"></issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.16.CVAS-342</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2470-1173(20170129)2017:16L.4;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">s2.phd</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/ei/2017/00002017/00000016/art00002</article-id>
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        <subj-group>
          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Virtual tracking shots for sports analysis</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Bennett</surname>
            <given-names>Stuart</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Lasenby</surname>
            <given-names>Joan</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Purnell</surname>
            <given-names>Tony</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>29</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2017</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2017</volume>
      <issue>16</issue>
      <fpage>4</fpage>
      <lpage>9</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Reviewing athletic performance is a critical part of modern sports training, but snapshots only showing part of a course or exercise can be misleading, while travelling cameras are expensive. In this paper we describe a system merging the output of many autonomous inexpensive camera
 nodes distributed around a course to reliably synthesize tracking shots of multiple athletes training concurrently. Issues such as uncontrolled lighting, athlete occlusions and overtaking/pack-motion are dealt with, as is compensating for the quirks of cheap image sensors. The resultant system
 is entirely automated, inexpensive, scalable and provides output in near real-time, allowing coaching staff to give immediate and relevant feedback on a performance. Requiring no alteration to existing training exercises has boosted the system's uptake by coaches, with over 100,000 videos
 recorded to date.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>VIRTUAL TRACKING SHOT</kwd>
        <kwd>SOFTWARE RAIL CAMERA</kwd>
        <kwd>VIDEO STITCHING</kwd>
        <kwd>SUBJECT TRACKING</kwd>
        <kwd>SPORTS ANALYSIS</kwd>
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