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 doesn’t 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.