筑波大学大学院 / University of Tsukuba / 理工情報生命学術院 システム情報工学研究群知能機能システム学位プログラム
MMSPORTS2021(査読付き国際学会論文)
Title:Automated Offside Detection by Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Football Videos MMSports'21: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in SportsOctober 2021 Pages 17–24https://doi.org/10.1145/3475722.3482796 Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new automated method to detect offsides from football match videos. The advantage of our method is that it can strictly follow the official offside rules in which the dynamics of play actions are spatio-temporally investigated. Furthermore, to overcome the difficult task of tracking the two-dimensional locations of the players and the ball, we utilized geometric characteristics on the perspective projection coupled with a Kalman filter to estimate information necessary for offside detection. Based on these methods, our prototype system can recognize whether an attacking player who crossed the offside line receives a pass from their teammate or not. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed method is the first method that can automatically determine offsides from video. Furthermore, this method is designed to enable online processing in the future.