YOLO-Ball: Real-time tennis ball detection under occlusion and motion blur
Published online on March 02, 2026
Abstract
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, Ahead of Print.
This paper proposes YOLO-Ball, an improved real-time detection model addressing tennis ball detection challenges including small target size, motion blur, and player/racket occlusion. The main contributions include: (1) A multi-branch occlusion-aware ...
This paper proposes YOLO-Ball, an improved real-time detection model addressing tennis ball detection challenges including small target size, motion blur, and player/racket occlusion. The main contributions include: (1) A multi-branch occlusion-aware ...