Computer-assisted Billiard Self-Training Using Intelligent Glasses

Abstract

Self-training plays an important role in sports exercise. However, if not under the instruction of a coach, it would be ineffective for most amateurs or inexperienced players to exercise on their own. Therefore, establishing computer-assisted training systems for sports exercise is a recently emerging topic. In this paper, we propose a billiard self-training system, which aims at improving billiard players' performance by utilizing intelligent glasses as a wearable camera and displayer. The proposed system is able to automatically analyze user-captured images of the billiard table from multiple views and display the ball configurations on a virtual top-view table. Enriched visual presentation can be provided to give the practitioner a further sight into the game. The experiments conducted on sixteen sets of different ball configurations show promising results.