A service to evaluate the performance of tracking and recognition of events

In this thesis, the different approaches used for evaluating the results of tracking algorithms, and in particular for analysis of football (soccer) tracking results, are discussed. The focus of the study is on systems with multiple static cameras. The appropriate data representation and ground truth capture methods are described, and evaluation measures that indicate the performance of any given automatic tracker are presented. The evaluation method is demonstrated to compare results of an implemented multi-camera tracker. The design and implementation of web based resources providing a performance evaluation service is also discussed.