How Football’s Offside AI works

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Offside is the most complicated rule in football, decisions on average take 70 seconds and can be deemed very incosistent by fans watching the game due to their subjective perspective.

FIFA’s Semi Automated Offside Technology is an AI using Hawk-Eye technology and aims to fix this inconsistency by bringing an objective perspective to the referees and reduce the decision time to 25 seconds.

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Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/02/var-given-thumbs-down-by-fans-for-premier-league-study

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597556966821629953

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Timecodes

0:00 - Intro
0:55 What Is Offside?
1:48 Is VAR Enough?
2:49 How Does It Work?
4:22 Convolutional Neural Networks
5:35 Object Identification
6:34 Al Rihla Ball
7:41 Synchronization
8:10 Testing
9:20 Benefits

Видео How Football’s Offside AI works канала Beyond Engineering