Abstract

Object detection is the most common task in Sports Video Analysis. This task requires accurate object detection that can handle a variety of objects of different sizes that are partially occluded, have poor lighting, or are presented in complicated surroundings. Object in field sports includes player’s team and ball detection; this is a difficult task resulting from the rapid movement of the player and speed of the object of concern. This paper proposes a pre-trained YOLOv3, deep learning-based object detection model. We have prepared a hockey dataset consisting of four main entities: Team 1 (AUS), Team 2 (BEL), Hockey Ball, and Umpire. We constructed own dataset because there are no existing field hockey datasets available. Experimental results indicate that the pre-trained YOLOV3 deep learning model generates comparative results on this dataset by modifying the hyperparameters of this pre-trained model.