March Madness — Analyze video to detect players, teams, and who attempted the basket

Doing cool things with data!

Introduction

Its March madness month! And what an exciting season it has been. For the data scientist within you lets use this opportunity to do some analysis on basketball clips. With the use of deep learning and opencv we can extract interesting insights from video clips. See example gif below of the game b/w UCF and Duke where we can identify all the players + referees, label players into teams based on…