ELASTIC: Event-Tracking Data Synchronization in Soccer Without Annotated Event Locations
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| author | Kim, Hyunsung Choi, Hoyoung Seo, Sangwoo Boomstra, Tom Yoon, Jinsung Park, Chanyoung |
| author_facet | Kim, Hyunsung Choi, Hoyoung Seo, Sangwoo Boomstra, Tom Yoon, Jinsung Park, Chanyoung |
| contents | The integration of event and tracking data has become essential for advanced analysis in soccer. However, synchronizing these two modalities remains a significant challenge due to temporal and spatial inaccuracies in manually recorded event timestamps. Existing synchronizers typically rely on annotated event locations, which themselves are prone to spatial errors and thus can distort synchronization results. To address this issue, we propose ELASTIC (Event-Location-AgnoSTIC synchronizer), a synchronization framework that only uses features derived from tracking data. ELASTIC also explicitly detects the end times of pass-like events and separates the detection of major and minor events, which improves the completeness of the synchronized output and reduces error cascade across events. We annotated the ground truth timestamps of 2,134 events from three Eredivisie matches to measure the synchronization accuracy, and the experimental results demonstrate that ELASTIC outperforms existing synchronizers by a large margin. |
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| spellingShingle | ELASTIC: Event-Tracking Data Synchronization in Soccer Without Annotated Event Locations Kim, Hyunsung Choi, Hoyoung Seo, Sangwoo Boomstra, Tom Yoon, Jinsung Park, Chanyoung Databases The integration of event and tracking data has become essential for advanced analysis in soccer. However, synchronizing these two modalities remains a significant challenge due to temporal and spatial inaccuracies in manually recorded event timestamps. Existing synchronizers typically rely on annotated event locations, which themselves are prone to spatial errors and thus can distort synchronization results. To address this issue, we propose ELASTIC (Event-Location-AgnoSTIC synchronizer), a synchronization framework that only uses features derived from tracking data. ELASTIC also explicitly detects the end times of pass-like events and separates the detection of major and minor events, which improves the completeness of the synchronized output and reduces error cascade across events. We annotated the ground truth timestamps of 2,134 events from three Eredivisie matches to measure the synchronization accuracy, and the experimental results demonstrate that ELASTIC outperforms existing synchronizers by a large margin. |
| title | ELASTIC: Event-Tracking Data Synchronization in Soccer Without Annotated Event Locations |
| topic | Databases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09238 |