Extraction of Positional Player Data from Broadcast Soccer Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11107v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:49:56 GMT
• Title: Extraction of Positional Player Data from Broadcast Soccer Videos
• Authors: Jonas Theiner and Wolfgang Gritz and Eric M\"uller-Budack and Robert Rein and Daniel Memmert and Ralph Ewerth
• Abstract summary: We propose a pipeline for the fully-automated extraction of positional data from broadcast video recordings of soccer matches. The system integrates all necessary sub-tasks like sports field registration, player detection, or team assignment. A comprehensive experimental evaluation is presented for the individual modules as well as the entire pipeline.
• Score: 3.7437974317872
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Computer-aided support and analysis are becoming increasingly important in the modern world of sports. The scouting of potential prospective players, performance as well as match analysis, and the monitoring of training programs rely more and more on data-driven technologies to ensure success. Therefore, many approaches require large amounts of data, which are, however, not easy to obtain in general. In this paper, we propose a pipeline for the fully-automated extraction of positional data from broadcast video recordings of soccer matches. In contrast to previous work, the system integrates all necessary sub-tasks like sports field registration, player detection, or team assignment that are crucial for player position estimation. The quality of the modules and the entire system is interdependent. A comprehensive experimental evaluation is presented for the individual modules as well as the entire pipeline to identify the influence of errors to subsequent modules and the overall result. In this context, we propose novel evaluation metrics to compare the output with ground-truth positional data.

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