Video Sequence Analysis for On-Table Tennis Player Ranking and Analysis

With the rapidly development of the scientific research in the field of sports, big data analytics and information science are used to carry out technical and tactical statistical analyses of competition or training videos. Table tennis is a skill-oriented sport. The technique and tactics in table tennis are the core factors to win the game. With the endlessly emerging innovative playing techniques and tactics, the players have their own competition styles. According to the competition events among athletes, the athletes' competition relationship network is constructed, and the players' rankings are established. The ranking can be used to help table tennis players improve daily training and understand their ability. In this paper, the table tennis players' rankings are established from their competition videos and their prestige scores in the table tennis players' competition relationship network.