Video Footage Highlight Detection in Formula 1 Through Vehicle Recognition with Faster R-CNN Trained on Game Footage

Ruan Spijkerman, Dustin van der Haar

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Abstract

Formula One, and its accompanying e-sports series, provides viewers with a large selection of camera angles, with the onboard cameras oftentimes providing the most exciting view of events. Through the implementation of three object detection pipelines, namely Haar cascades, Histogram of Oriented Gradient features with a Support Vector Machine, and a Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Faster R-CNN), we analyse their ability to detect the cars in real-life and virtual onboard footage using training images taken from the official F1 2019 video game. The results of this research concluded that Faster R-CNNs would be best suited for accurate detection of vehicles to identify events such as crashes occurring in real-time. This finding is evident through the precision and recall scores of 97% and 99%, respectively. The speed of detection when using a Haar cascade also makes it an attractive choice in scenarios where precise detection is not important. The Haar cascade achieved the lowest detection time of only 0.14 s per image at the cost of precision (71%). The implementation of HOG features classifier using an SVM was unsuccessful with regards to detection and speed, which took up to 17 s to classify an image. Both the Haar cascade and HOG feature models improved their performance when tested on real-life images (76% and 67% respectively), while the Faster R-CNN showed a slight drop in terms of precision (93%).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision and Graphics - International Conference, ICCVG 2020, Proceedings
EditorsLeszek J. Chmielewski, Ryszard Kozera, Arkadiusz Orlowski
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages176-187
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030590055
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
EventInternational Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics, ICCVG 2020 - Warsaw, Poland
Duration: 14 Sept 202016 Sept 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12334 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics, ICCVG 2020
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWarsaw
Period14/09/2016/09/20

Keywords

  • Faster R-CNN
  • Haar cascade
  • Histogram of oriented gradients
  • Object detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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