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Accurate prediction of FIFA World Cup match outcomes holds significant value for analysts, coaches, bettors, and fans. This paper presents a machine learning framework specifically designed to forecast match winners in FIFA World Cup. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ali Al-Bustami , Zaid Ghazal

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) simply refers to the capacity of a machine to perceive human actions. HAR is a prominent application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques that utilize computer vision to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Niloy Sikder , Md. Sanaullah Chowdhury , Abu Shamim Mohammad Arif , Abdullah-Al Nahid

Computer Vision developments are enabling significant advances in many fields, including sports. Many applications built on top of Computer Vision technologies, such as tracking data, are nowadays essential for every top-level analyst,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Tiago Mendes-Neves , Luís Meireles , João Mendes-Moreira

Human motion prediction aims to predict future 3D skeletal sequences by giving a limited human motion as inputs. Two popular methods, recurrent neural networks and feed-forward deep networks, are able to predict rough motion trend, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Xianjin Chao , Yanrui Bin , Wenqing Chu , Xuan Cao , Yanhao Ge , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Howard Leung

Human action recognition from well-segmented 3D skeleton data has been intensively studied and has been attracting an increasing attention. Online action detection goes one step further and is more challenging, which identifies the action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Yanghao Li , Cuiling Lan , Junliang Xing , Wenjun Zeng , Chunfeng Yuan , Jiaying Liu

As an amateur goalkeeper playing grassroots soccer, who better to learn from than top professional goalkeepers? In this paper, we harness computer vision and machine learning models to appraise the save technique of professionals in a way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Matthew Wear , Ryan Beal , Tim Matthews , Tim Norman , Sarvapali Ramchurn

Puck location in ice hockey is essential for hockey analysts for determining the location of play and analyzing game events. However, because of the difficulty involved in obtaining accurate annotations due to the extremely low visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Kanav Vats , William McNally , Chris Dulhanty , Zhong Qiu Lin , David A. Clausi , John Zelek

It is not surprise for machine learning models to provide decent prediction accuracy of soccer games outcomes based on various objective metrics. However, the performance is not that decent in terms of predicting difficult and valuable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Liyao Lu , Qiang Lyu

Predicting the behavior of surrounding traffic participants is crucial for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. Most researchers however do not consider contextual knowledge when predicting vehicle motion. Extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Florian Wirthmüller , Julian Schlechtriemen , Jochen Hipp , Manfred Reichert

Robustness to domain changes is a key capability for effective deployment of human action recognition systems in real-world scenarios, where action categories at inference can present important domain shifts or even unseen actions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yannick Porto , Renato Martins , Thomas Chalumeau , Cedric Demonceaux

To interact with humans in collaborative environments, machines need to be able to predict (i.e., anticipate) future events, and execute actions in a timely manner. However, the observation of the human limb movements may not be sufficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Clebeson Canuto , Plinio Moreno , Jorge Samatelo , Raquel Vassallo , José Santos-Victor

In the last years, scientific and industrial research has experienced a growing interest in acquiring large annotated data sets to train artificial intelligence algorithms for tackling problems in different domains. In this context, we have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Silvio Barra , Salvatore M. Carta , Alessandro Giuliani , Alessia Pisu , Alessandro Sebastian Podda , DanieleRiboni

The action anticipation task refers to predicting what action will happen based on observed videos, which requires the model to have a strong ability to summarize the present and then reason about the future. Experience and common sense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xin Liu , Chao Hao , Zitong Yu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Wearable computing and context awareness are the focuses of study in the field of artificial intelligence recently. One of the most appealing as well as challenging applications is the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) utilizing smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Mingtao Dong , Jindong Han

Although orientation has proven to be a key skill of soccer players in order to succeed in a broad spectrum of plays, body orientation is a yet-little-explored area in sports analytics' research. Despite being an inherently ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Adrià Arbués-Sangüesa , Adrián Martín , Javier Fernández , Carlos Rodríguez , Gloria Haro , Coloma Ballester

Recent research into human action recognition (HAR) has focused predominantly on skeletal action recognition and video-based methods. With the increasing availability of consumer-grade depth sensors and Lidar instruments, there is a growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 James Dickens

This paper aims to reduce randomness in football by analysing the role of lineups in final scores using machine learning prediction models we have developed. Football clubs invest millions of dollars on lineups and knowing how individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 George Peters , Diogo Pacheco

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active research area, owing to its applications in smart environments, assisted living, fitness, healthcare, etc. Recently, deep learning based end-to-end training has resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Thomas Ploetz

Most recent work on vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) focuses on designing complex deep learning models for the task. In so doing, there is a requirement for large datasets to be collected. As acquiring and processing large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Bruce X. B. Yu , Yan Liu , Keith C. C. Chan

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has recently witnessed advancements with Transformer-based models. Especially, ActionFormer shows us a new perspectives for HAR in the sense that this approach gives us additional outputs which detect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kunpeng Zhao , Asahi Miyazaki , Tsuyoshi Okita