Ball Hit Detection in Table Tennis Games Based on Audio Analysis

Abstract

As bearer of high level semantics, audio signal is being more and more used in content-based multimedia retrieval. In this paper, we investigate the ball hit detection for sports games and propose a novel approach to detect ball hits. By employing energy peak detection (EPD) and Mel frequency cepstral coefficient-based (MFCC-based) refinement (MBR), high precision (91%) and adequate recall (73%) of ball hit detection are achieved with a low computational complexity and an easy training process. The proposed algorithm can be applied in audio content-based highlight detection systems and provide valuable information for semantical understanding of sports games