CVPR Daily - Tuesday

DAILY T u e s d a y CVsports 21 “There’s always competition between the invited speakers to come to our workshop, so we don’t have to do a lot of persuading ourselves!” Rikke laughs. “They contact us and are keen to take part. We have some big and interesting names this year and a great diversity between the topics.” Since the workshops started, advancements in computer vision have continued unabated, and sport is one of the key domains where it’s possible to see this research applied in the real world. Back at the time of the first workshop, sports graphics was the new technology on the block and there was someof that incorporated intobroadcast. Now, technologies for analysis, player tracking, pitch performance analysis, and extracting statistics, as well as the innovations from research, are used by both the teams and the audience to provide more information across a number of different sports. But is there a point where you can have want to enjoy the game? Adrian doesn’t think so: “It’s almost the opposite with sports. People want more information . They want the game, of course, they want to see the main event, but they also want all the background and the statistics. If you’re coming from a sports performance perspective, then you want to know how to put together the best team. How to make the best players. How to analyze the opposition. That’s a big one in terms of premier league soccer and things like that.” With Adrian being English and myself Italian, this brings us to a very important question: why did he use this strange ‘soccer’ word? “Ah, the Transatlantic divide between soccer and football! Yes, Images Wu, Nozawa, Perteneder, Koike