Object Detection Applied to Rugby – Computer Vision
A computer vision model that detects players, the ball and referees from match footage. The dataset was built from extracted frames manually annotated on Roboflow, with a YOLOv8 model trained through transfer learning and iterative work on common computer vision issues such as class imbalance and annotation errors.
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