Tactic Analysis in Football

Instructors:
Nima Najafzadeh
Mahdi Oraei
Spring 2011

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Out line
• Introduction
• Framework
• Related Works
• Tactic Analysis
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Challenges
• Future Works
• References

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Introduction
• Using digital Videos with high
quality for analyzing

• Some Services:
• Highlight Replay
• in‐game Statistics
• Pattern Analysis
• Tracking
• Semantic Analysis

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Framework

• Low-level processing based analysis

• Mid-level representation based
analysis
• High-level analysis based on
multimodality

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Framework
Source
Video

Low level Features

Visual Features:
•Color Audio Features Text Features
•Shape

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Framework

Mid-Level Model

Visual Model: Text models:

Audio Model:
•Motion
•Audio keyword •Text keywords
model model
•Ball and player trajectories

Domain
knowledge
&
Model selections Machine
learning

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Framework

Semantics concept

Event &
Tactic In game
highlight
analysis statistics
Tracking
extraction

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 Related Works

• Existing approaches for soccer video

analysis were mostly for event-driven
indexing of video content, which
cannot provide detailed tactic
information used in the game.

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Tactic Analysis

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Tactic Analysis
• GOAL EVENT EXTRACTION
• Web-Casting Text Analysis

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Tactic Analysis
• GOAL EVENT EXTRACTION
• Game Time Recognition
• Video/Text Alignment

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Tactic Analysis

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 Tactic Information Extraction and
Representation
• Multi-Object Trajectories Acquisition
• Ball Detection and Tracking
• Player Detection and Tracking

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Ball Detection and Tracking

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Player Tracking

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 TACTIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION
AND REPRESENTATION

• Aggregate Trajectory Computation

• Mosaic Trajectory Computation
• Temporal and Spatial Interaction Analysis

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TACTIC INFORMATION EXTRACTION
AND REPRESENTATION

• Play Region Identification

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Tactic Analysis

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Tactic Analysis
• TACTIC PATTERN ANALYSIS
• Route Pattern Recognition
• Interaction Pattern Recognition
• TACTIC MODE PRESENTATION
• Data must be clearly and concisely and easy
to understand
• Usable information like ball tracking, player
tracking, etc.

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Advantages & Disadvantages

• Pros:
• Event-driven plus tactic analysis
• Effective performance in ball and
players tracking
• Good performance in 2006 world cup
• Cons:
• human-labeled: Web-Casting Text
• Weak machine learning in use
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Challenges
• the ball becomes a long blurred
strip when it moves fast
• the ball is sometimes occluded by
players, merged with lines, or
hidden in the auditorium
• many other objects are similar to
the ball.

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Future Works
• Using sensor for players and balls
• Using online statistics of match
for coaching
• Develop this method for other
sports

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Reference
• G. Zhu, Q. Huang, C. Xu, Y. Yui, S. Jiang,W. Gao, and H.
Yao. Trajectory based event tactics analysis in broadcast
sports video. In 15th Int. Conf. on Multimedia, pages 58–
67, 2007

• Sports Video Analysis: Semantic Extraction, Editorial

Content Creation and Application, Changsheng Xu, 2009

• Survey of Sports Video Analysis: Research Issues and

Applications, J. R. Wang, 2005

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Any Question?

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