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Several performance metrics for quantifying the in-game performances of individual football players have been proposed in recent years. Although the majority of the on-the-ball actions during games constitutes of passes, many of the…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-05 Lotte Bransen , Jan Van Haaren

Tracking data is a powerful tool for basketball teams in order to extract advanced semantic information and statistics that might lead to a performance boost. However, multi-person tracking is a challenging task to solve in single-camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Adrià Arbués-Sangüesa , Gloria Haro , Coloma Ballester

In the rapidly evolving field of sports analytics, the automation of targeted video processing is a pivotal advancement. We propose PlayerTV, an innovative framework which harnesses state-of-the-art AI technologies for automatic player…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Håkon Maric Solberg , Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh , Sushant Gautam , Saeed Shafiee Sabet , Pål Halvorsen , Cise Midoglu

Although the values of individual soccer players have become astronomical, subjective judgments still play a big part in the player analysis. Recently, there have been new attempts to quantitatively grasp players' styles using video-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Hyunsung Kim , Jihun Kim , Dongwook Chung , Jonghyun Lee , Jinsung Yoon , Sang-Ki Ko

Recent developments in video analysis of sports and computer vision techniques have achieved significant improvements to enable a variety of critical operations. To provide enhanced information, such as detailed complex analysis in sports…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Banoth Thulasya Naik , Mohammad Farukh Hashmi , Neeraj Dhanraj Bokde

We developed an artificial intelligence approach to predict the transfer fee of a football player. This model can help clubs make better decisions about which players to buy and sell, which can lead to improved performance and increased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Daniil Sulimov

Multi-Object Tracking over humans has improved rapidly with the development of object detection and re-identification. However, multi-actor tracking over humans with similar appearance and nonlinear movement can still be very challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Hsiang-Wei Huang , Cheng-Yen Yang , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Pyong-Kun Kim , Kwangju Kim , Kyoungoh Lee

The availability of tracking data in football presents unique opportunities for analyzing team shape and player roles, but leveraging it effectively remains challenging. This difficulty arises from the significant overlap in player…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-06 Ali Baouan

Injuries have a great impact on professional soccer, due to their large influence on team performance and the considerable costs of rehabilitation for players. Existing studies in the literature provide just a preliminary understanding of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Alessio Rossi , Luca Pappalardo , Paolo Cintia , Marcello Iaia , Javier Fernandez , Daniel Medina

Tracking players in sports videos is commonly done in a tracking-by-detection framework, first detecting players in each frame, and then performing association over time. While for some sports tracking players is sufficient for game…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yang Liu , Luiz G. Hafemann , Michael Jamieson , Mehrsan Javan

We modeled the dynamics of a soccer match based on a network representation where players are nodes discretely clustered into homogeneous groups. Players were grouped by physical proximity, supported by the intuitive notion that competing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Luis Ramada Pereira , Rui J. Lopes , Jorge Louçã , Duarte Araújo , João Ramos

The expected goal provides a more representative measure of the team and player performance which also suit the low-scoring nature of football instead of score in modern football. The score of a match involves randomness and often may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mustafa Cavus , Przemysław Biecek

The task of action spotting consists in both identifying actions and precisely localizing them in time with a single timestamp in long, untrimmed video streams. Automatically extracting those actions is crucial for many sports applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Silvio Giancola , Anthony Cioppa , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Camera calibration and localization, sometimes simply named camera calibration, enables many applications in the context of soccer broadcasting, for instance regarding the interpretation and analysis of the game, or the insertion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Floriane Magera , Thomas Hoyoux , Olivier Barnich , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

The detection of small and medium-sized objects in three dimensions has always been a frontier exploration problem. This technology has a very wide application in sports analysis, games, virtual reality, human animation and other fields.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Lei Li , Tianfang Zhang , Zhongfeng Kang , Wenhan Zhang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision, particularly in situations involving objects with similar appearances but diverse movements, as seen in team sports. Current methods, largely reliant on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Atom Scott , Ikuma Uchida , Ning Ding , Rikuhei Umemoto , Rory Bunker , Ren Kobayashi , Takeshi Koyama , Masaki Onishi , Yoshinari Kameda , Keisuke Fujii

In soccer video analysis, player detection is essential for identifying key events and reconstructing tactical positions. The presence of numerous players and frequent occlusions, combined with copyright restrictions, severely restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Haobin Qin , Calvin Yeung , Rikuhei Umemoto , Keisuke Fujii

In team sports analytics, long-term player tracking remains a challenging task due to player appearance similarity, occlusion, and dynamic motion patterns. Accurately re-identifying players and reconnecting tracklets after extended absences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Maria Koshkina , James H. Elder

The NFL collects detailed tracking data capturing the location of all players and the ball during each play. Although the raw form of this data is not publicly available, the NFL releases a set of aggregated statistics via their Next Gen…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-09 Sarah Mallepalle , Ron Yurko , Konstantinos Pelechrinis , Samuel L. Ventura

Despite recent advances in AI, event data collection in soccer still relies heavily on labor-intensive manual annotation. Although prior work has explored automatic event detection using player and ball trajectories, ball tracking also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hyunsung Kim , Kunhee Lee , Sangwoo Seo , Sang-Ki Ko , Jinsung Yoon , Chanyoung Park