VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views

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Autori principali: Held, Jan, Cioppa, Anthony, Giancola, Silvio, Hamdi, Abdullah, Ghanem, Bernard, Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Held, Jan
Cioppa, Anthony
Giancola, Silvio
Hamdi, Abdullah
Ghanem, Bernard
Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
author_facet Held, Jan
Cioppa, Anthony
Giancola, Silvio
Hamdi, Abdullah
Ghanem, Bernard
Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
contents The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has revolutionized association football, enabling referees to review incidents on the pitch, make informed decisions, and ensure fairness. However, due to the lack of referees in many countries and the high cost of the VAR infrastructure, only professional leagues can benefit from it. In this paper, we propose a Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) that can automate soccer decision-making. VARS leverages the latest findings in multi-view video analysis, to provide real-time feedback to the referee, and help them make informed decisions that can impact the outcome of a game. To validate VARS, we introduce SoccerNet-MVFoul, a novel video dataset of soccer fouls from multiple camera views, annotated with extensive foul descriptions by a professional soccer referee, and we benchmark our VARS to automatically recognize the characteristics of these fouls. We believe that VARS has the potential to revolutionize soccer refereeing and take the game to new heights of fairness and accuracy across all levels of professional and amateur federations.
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spellingShingle VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views
Held, Jan
Cioppa, Anthony
Giancola, Silvio
Hamdi, Abdullah
Ghanem, Bernard
Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has revolutionized association football, enabling referees to review incidents on the pitch, make informed decisions, and ensure fairness. However, due to the lack of referees in many countries and the high cost of the VAR infrastructure, only professional leagues can benefit from it. In this paper, we propose a Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) that can automate soccer decision-making. VARS leverages the latest findings in multi-view video analysis, to provide real-time feedback to the referee, and help them make informed decisions that can impact the outcome of a game. To validate VARS, we introduce SoccerNet-MVFoul, a novel video dataset of soccer fouls from multiple camera views, annotated with extensive foul descriptions by a professional soccer referee, and we benchmark our VARS to automatically recognize the characteristics of these fouls. We believe that VARS has the potential to revolutionize soccer refereeing and take the game to new heights of fairness and accuracy across all levels of professional and amateur federations.
title VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04617