DRS ASSISTING UMPIRE USING COMPUTER VISION

Abstract

A fair decision is crucial in any of the game to give justice to the game. Any wrong decision due to human misperception may fate the result of the game. Computer vision and Image processing techniques have been mentioned in the literature review which used multiple cameras for demonstration. This paper focuses on a system which helps in making the decisions to assist the umpire in taking the decisions such as no-ball, LBW i.e. Leg before wicket, Run out, stump out, etc with the help of smartphone camera of good quality. The Decision review system (DRS) aims to give decisions like run-out and stump-out. Tkinter is used to develop the GUI of DRS. Object classification and object recognition is implemented using Histogram of Gradients (HOG) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). To detect the cricket ball from the video we optimized and used frame subtraction, contour detection and minimum enclosing circle algorithms using OpenCV library. Linear regression and quadratic regression are used to track and predict the motion of the ball from video source. VPython is used for the visual representation.