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Early detection of injuries in MLB pitchers from video

  • Indiana University Bloomington

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Abstract

Injuries are a major cost in sports. Teams spend millions of dollars every year on players who are hurt and unable to play, resulting in lost games, decreased fan interest and additional wages for replacement players. Modern convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to many video recognition tasks. In this paper, we introduce the problem of injury detection/prediction in MLB pitchers and experimentally evaluate the ability of such convolutional models to detect and predict injuries in pitches only from video data. We conduct experiments on a large dataset of TV broadcast MLB videos of 20 different pitchers who were injured during the 2017 season. We experimentally evaluate the model's performance on each individual pitcher, how well it generalizes to new pitchers, how it performs for various injuries, and how early it can predict or detect an injury.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2431-2438
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781728125060
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019
Event32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019 - Long Beach, United States
Duration: Jun 16 2019Jun 20 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Volume2019-June
ISSN (Print)2160-7508
ISSN (Electronic)2160-7516

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach
Period06/16/1906/20/19

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