TOTNet: Occlusion-Aware Temporal Tracking for Robust Ball Detection in Sports Videos
Robust ball tracking under occlusion remains a key challenge in sports video analysis, affecting tasks like event detection and officiating. We present TOTNet, a Temporal Occlusion Tracking Network that leverages 3D convolutions, visibility-weighted loss, and occlusion augmentation to improve performance under partial and full occlusions. Developed in collaboration with Paralympics Australia, TOTNet is designed for real-world sports analytics. We introduce TTA, a new occlusion-rich table tennis dataset collected from professional-level Paralympic matches, comprising 9,159 samples with 1,996 occlusion cases. Evaluated on four datasets across tennis, badminton, and table tennis, TOTNet significantly outperforms prior state-of-the-art methods, reducing RMSE from 37.30 to 7.19 and improving accuracy on fully occluded frames from 0.63 to 0.80. These results demonstrate TOTNets effectiveness for offline sports analytics in fast-paced scenarios. Code and data access:\href{https://github.com/AugustRushG/TOTNet}{AugustRushG/TOTNet}.
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