ABSTRACT

In this paper, we present the details of the HAWKEYE Technology. The technology requires no separate introduction- it is one of the most commonly used technologies in sports these days. The HAWKEYE is deployed on many sporting venues across the globe including almost all major tennis tournament venues and cricket grounds. In this paper, we restrict our discussion to applications of HAWKEYE specific to Cricket. The topic we choose falls in the category Tecathlon: Technology in Sports and we believe it doesnt require any further justification.

Now-a-days we commonly see visualizations and attractive graphics in the cricket analysis shows. These include wagon wheels; pitch maps reliable looking software predictions for LBW decisions. It is also seen very commonly that important decisions during the course of the game sometimes go wrong due to the human errors in judgment and these can change the way the match is going. With this background, people related to the game have started thinking of getting in more and more technology into the game to make it more lively, understandable and less prone to mistakes in judgment and hence lesser incorrect umpiring decisions. The HAWKEYE is one technology which has really shown the promise and can help us in making very accurate decisions. Although we all look at the output of this wonderful technology everyday on our TV sets, few of us will actually know of the details about the working of this system. There is a lot of image processing, plenty of mathematical calculations and other aspects of engineering which need to be used in order to allow for the development of such a robust and reliable system. This paper attempts to explain all these aspects in some detail.