The computer-aided system for promoting judgments of umpires

Abstract

Basketball is one of the most popular sports, and it's also popular in Taiwan because of fierce competition among SBL, UBL and HBL. Umpires are the pivots who can let games to proceed smoothly. Basketball games are played in quick progress and changing all the time. As an umpire, being calm and just in such a tense situation can be difficult. Therefore, how to train an experienced umpire is especially important. But till now the check-up system without aid of computer is not suitable for training umpires. For this reason, using the new technique to help training and assessing is necessary. We want to propose a computer-aided system based on video database for promoting judgments of umpire in order not to influence the game results by erroneous judgments and misses of judgment. Training by simulation instead just by statement of situation can let umpires be more familiar to real situations and do better judgments in real games. Also, we will do reliability and validity tests to prove our scheme. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.