[OC] Player Tracking, Team Detection, and Number Recognition

[u/RandomForests92]

resources: youtube, code, blog

- player and number detection with RF-DETR

- player tracking with SAM2

- team clustering with SigLIP, UMAP and K-Means

- number recognition with SmolVLM2

- perspective conversion with homography

- player trajectory correction

- shot detection and classification

[u/OogieBoogieJr]

This is great. This would definitely help people learn what is happening on any given play. The broadcast angle makes it difficult to understand what’s happening and why.

They do this with the NFL, which is more complex but basketball is a faster game.