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arxiv: 2606.26780 · v1 · pith:K53HKZLUnew · submitted 2026-06-25 · 💻 cs.CV · eess.IV

Event-based Gaze Control System for Accurate Real-time Spin Estimation in Professional Ball Games

Yunpu Hu , Fabian Schilling , Valentina Cavinato , Asude Aydin , Agis Politis , Ricardo Tapiador Morales , Kirk Y.W. Scheper , Peter D\"urr
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The pith

Event-based system with active mirrors estimates ball spin in real time at 750 Hz during professional matches.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops an event camera system that uses fast-moving mirrors and a tunable lens to keep a fast-spinning ball in view and focused. It introduces an offline contrast-maximization method on the sphere that reaches high accuracy on static balls from several sports. An online version uses a neural network trained on the offline results to deliver low-latency spin estimates during live table tennis games. This matters because spin determines ball flight paths yet has been difficult to measure without special markings or high-speed equipment.

Core claim

The offline s-CMax method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on static balls across multiple sports with mean magnitude and axis errors of 2.1% and 4.0 degrees. The online method, using an uncertainty-aware CNN trained on pseudo-ground-truth labels from the offline approach plus GPU-accelerated contrast maximization, achieves 8.8% magnitude and 6.4 degrees axis mismatch with 3 ms latency and 750 Hz throughput in professional table tennis matches.

What carries the argument

Contrast maximization on the sphere (s-CMax) that aligns event data to estimate rotation parameters, combined with an uncertainty-aware convolutional neural network for real-time inference and hybrid 2D/3D tracking using event detection and external localization.

If this is right

  • Spin estimation becomes feasible without modifying the ball or using special lighting.
  • Real-time spin data at 750 Hz can support immediate analysis during matches.
  • The system works across table tennis, baseball, tennis, and golf in offline mode.
  • Low 3 ms latency enables potential integration into coaching or broadcasting tools.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Combining the spin estimates with existing ball trajectory systems could improve flight prediction models.
  • The active gaze control approach might extend to other fast-moving objects like drones or vehicles.
  • Training the network on more diverse data could reduce the gap between offline and online accuracy.

Load-bearing premise

The spin labels generated by the offline contrast-maximization method are accurate enough to serve as training targets for the online network without introducing errors that would affect real-time performance.

What would settle it

Running the online system on a dataset of table tennis rallies where independent high-speed camera recordings provide direct ground-truth spin values and checking if the reported error levels hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.26780 by Agis Politis, Asude Aydin, Fabian Schilling, Kirk Y.W. Scheper, Naoya Takahashi, Peter D\"urr, Ricardo Tapiador Morales, Valentina Cavinato, Yunpu Hu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The gaze control system (GCS) actively tracks the ball and measures its spin in ball games. 1 Introduction Spin plays a key role in many ball sports due to its effect on the ball’s flight and contact dynamics. Athletes routinely apply spin to control the ball’s flight path, deceive opponents, or gain a tactical advantage. Accurate spin estimation is thus of vital importance for performance analysis, sports… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the information flow in the GCS. the event stream to set velocity constraints. However, all existing event-based methods employ static, wide-angle cameras, which severely limits the spatial resolution on the ball and conflates translational motion with spin, a funda￾mental challenge for in-flight estimation. Our work addresses both limitations through active tracking with a telephoto lens, prop… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The effect of different ball types on the s-CMax magnitude and axis error. The bottom row shows a time surface representation of the different balls when their pattern is visible, spinning at 1 krpm. We recorded a dataset with different balls in a sidespin configuration with a total of 19 raw event files, 9 files with the table tennis ball from 1-9 krpm, 4 files for the golf and tennis ball from 1-4 krpm, … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: CNN magnitude and axis errors on the held-out test set for different uncertainty percentiles and magnitude ranges. 5 Conclusion We presented an event-based active vision system for real-time ball tracking and spin estimation, combining an event camera with a focus-tunable telephoto lens and fast galvanometer mirrors to obtain a magnified, motion-compensated view of unmodified balls in flight. The hybrid tr… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Spin plays a crucial role in many ball sports due to its effect on the trajectory of the ball. Vision-based estimation of the ball's spin during a game with conventional cameras is challenging due to the ball's small size, high speed, and fast rotation. To address these challenges, we propose an event-based active vision system that can track unmodified balls and measure their spin in real-time. The system consists of an event camera for its high temporal resolution and minimal motion blur, high-speed pan/tilt galvanometer mirrors to keep the ball in the field of view, and a low-latency focus-tunable telephoto lens to increase the spatial resolution on the ball and keep it in focus. To track the ball, we use a hybrid approach that combines 2D event-based detection for centering and 3D positions from a ball localization system for re-initialization. For high-accuracy spin estimation, we propose an offline method that performs contrast maximization on the sphere (s-CMax). This method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on static balls across multiple sports (table tennis, baseball, tennis, and golf), with mean magnitude and axis errors of 2.1% and 4.0 degrees, respectively. We then develop a low-latency online method for table tennis as a case study in real-time applications. This method uses an uncertainty-aware convolutional neural network trained on pseudo-ground-truth spin labels from the offline approach, combined with a GPU-accelerated batch implementation of contrast maximization for refinement. We demonstrate reliable tracking and spin estimation with a three-view setup during professional table tennis matches, with high accuracy (8.8% magnitude and 6.4 degrees axis mismatch), 3 ms latency, and 750 Hz throughput.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents an event-based active vision system combining an event camera, high-speed pan/tilt galvanometer mirrors, and a focus-tunable telephoto lens for real-time ball tracking and spin estimation in sports. An offline contrast-maximization method on the sphere (s-CMax) is claimed to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy (2.1% magnitude error, 4.0° axis error) on static balls across table tennis, baseball, tennis, and golf. An online uncertainty-aware CNN trained on s-CMax pseudo-ground-truth labels, with GPU-accelerated refinement, is demonstrated on professional table tennis matches yielding 8.8% magnitude and 6.4° axis mismatch at 3 ms latency and 750 Hz throughput.

Significance. If the offline labels prove unbiased under dynamic conditions, the work would provide a practical hardware-software pipeline for high-throughput spin measurement in unmodified professional games, addressing longstanding challenges of motion blur and small ball size with event sensing and active gaze control. The hybrid 2D/3D tracking and real-match demonstration add engineering value for sports analytics applications.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The s-CMax accuracy figures (2.1% magnitude, 4.0° axis) are reported exclusively for static balls, yet these same labels serve as pseudo-ground-truth both to train the online CNN and to compute the live-match mismatch (8.8% magnitude, 6.4° axis). No separate error characterization of s-CMax is supplied for high linear velocity, changing distance, or event sparsity typical of game conditions, directly undermining the reliability of the reported online accuracy.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The online accuracy is quantified as 'mismatch' to the offline pipeline rather than to independent ground truth; because the CNN is trained directly on s-CMax labels, the numerical result is at least partly circular and cannot be interpreted as an external validation of real-time performance.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: No dataset sizes, error-bar methodology, ablation studies, or derivation details are provided for either the static-ball s-CMax results or the live-match CNN evaluation, preventing assessment of statistical significance or robustness of the central quantitative claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The distinction between 'error' (static) and 'mismatch' (live) is important but should be stated more explicitly when the numbers are first introduced.
  2. Hardware throughput (750 Hz) and latency (3 ms) figures would benefit from a brief description of the measurement protocol or timing diagram.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for highlighting important aspects of our validation strategy. We address each major comment below with clarifications and planned revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The s-CMax accuracy figures (2.1% magnitude, 4.0° axis) are reported exclusively for static balls, yet these same labels serve as pseudo-ground-truth both to train the online CNN and to compute the live-match mismatch (8.8% magnitude, 6.4° axis). No separate error characterization of s-CMax is supplied for high linear velocity, changing distance, or event sparsity typical of game conditions, directly undermining the reliability of the reported online accuracy.

    Authors: We agree that s-CMax was characterized only on static balls and that its behavior under dynamic game conditions (high velocity, varying distance, event sparsity) lacks separate quantification. Independent ground truth for spinning balls in unmodified professional play is difficult to acquire. We will revise the abstract and add a dedicated limitations paragraph discussing potential biases and how static results may extrapolate, while retaining the pseudo-ground-truth approach as the most practical option. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The online accuracy is quantified as 'mismatch' to the offline pipeline rather than to independent ground truth; because the CNN is trained directly on s-CMax labels, the numerical result is at least partly circular and cannot be interpreted as an external validation of real-time performance.

    Authors: The reported 8.8 % / 6.4° figures are the final output after the GPU-accelerated contrast-maximization refinement step applied to the CNN prediction. This refinement is not identical to the offline s-CMax pipeline. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the result remains relative rather than externally validated. We will edit the abstract and results section to explicitly label the metric as “mismatch to the offline reference after refinement” and discuss its interpretation. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: No dataset sizes, error-bar methodology, ablation studies, or derivation details are provided for either the static-ball s-CMax results or the live-match CNN evaluation, preventing assessment of statistical significance or robustness of the central quantitative claims.

    Authors: We will supply the missing information in the revised manuscript: number of static-ball trials per sport, exact error aggregation procedure (including any standard deviations), ablation results on the spherical contrast-maximization formulation, a concise derivation of the s-CMax objective, and the number of frames/matches used for the live-match evaluation together with the aggregation method. revision: yes

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Online CNN accuracy reported as mismatch to offline s-CMax pseudo-ground-truth labels used for its own training

specific steps
  1. fitted input called prediction [Abstract]
    "This method uses an uncertainty-aware convolutional neural network trained on pseudo-ground-truth spin labels from the offline approach, combined with a GPU-accelerated batch implementation of contrast maximization for refinement. We demonstrate reliable tracking and spin estimation with a three-view setup during professional table tennis matches, with high accuracy (8.8% magnitude and 6.4 degrees axis mismatch)"

    The CNN is trained on spin labels produced by the offline s-CMax pipeline; the numerical accuracy claimed for the online method is the mismatch between online outputs and those same offline labels. This makes the live performance metric statistically dependent on the offline estimator by construction.

full rationale

The paper's central online performance numbers (8.8% magnitude / 6.4° axis) are computed directly against the same offline s-CMax outputs that supply the training targets. Because no independent external ground-truth is supplied for the dynamic match data, the reported 'accuracy' figure reduces to a measure of how well the CNN reproduces its own training source rather than an independent measurement. The offline s-CMax itself is presented with separate static-ball validation, so the circularity is partial and confined to the online pipeline.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the central claims rest on the unstated assumption that event patterns on a sphere uniquely determine spin and that the galvanometer-lens hardware can maintain focus and centering at game speeds.

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