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. 2025 Aug 12;11:e3079. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.3079

Table 6. Algorithm performance by sport.

Sport Best algorithm Accuracy/mAP Inference time Strengths Challenges
Football YOLOv8 (Hybrid Enhancements) High Real-time Handles occlusion, real-time tracking Issues with distant ball tracking
Tennis SSD-MobileNet Medium-high Fast Lightweight, CPU-friendly Sensitive to lighting
Table tennis Optimized YOLOv3-Tiny Very high Very Fast Great for small object detection Needs high-res input
Basketball YOLO-T2LSTM Very high Fast Accurate action recognition Complex model fusion
Golf Faster R-CNN Very high Slow High precision tracking Not real-time capable
Handball Mask R-CNN Very high Slow High segmentation accuracy High computational cost
Volleyball YOLOv3 (Enhanced) High Fast Improved detection of fast-moving objects Training data limits generalizability
Boccia Tiny-YOLO High Fast Good color-based accuracy Lighting sensitivity, narrow FOV
Rugby YOLOv3 High Fast Compact architecture for embedded use Lower resolution support
Padel YOLO + Audio SED High Fast Context-aware detection Audio interference risks
Badminton YOLO-HGNet Very high Fast Enhanced classification and detection accuracy Requires tuning and large datasets