A method of glove tracking for amateur boxing refereeing

Amateur boxing is one of the most exciting and interesting sports. Since referee of amateur boxing detects and counts number of punches that hit the opponents as scores for refereeing, an automatic glove tracking and punch detecting functions can help the judgment system because a machine has no bias. In this paper, we propose the method of glove tracking for amateur boxing refereeing. In this method, color-based segmentation is used to determine white region of glove in the first couple of frames and the glove in the next frames is tracked by opening window according to the movement vector of previous frames. To evaluate performance of proposed method, the experiments with videos of amateur boxer are performed. The results showed a glove could be tracked accurately.