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AI is used in sports for boosting performance, fitness, and health thanks to predictive analysis. AI offers a way to spot patterns that coaches can't. AI can help teams shape strategies, and tactics, and maximize their strengths. FIFA (International Federation of Association Football), the international governing body of association football, has announced it will use AI-powered cameras to help referees make offside calls at the 2022 World Cup. According to DeepMind researchers, football offers a constrained but challenging environment for them to road-test their algorithms.
Artificial intelligence technology has so far been used at the Club World Cup and FIFA Arab Cup, and FIFA expects it to be used in Qatar 2022. AI enables football coaches to blend good old human intuition with new-age technologies to improve players' techniques, maximize training results, and devise personalized programs. Artificial Intelligence deals with data in a way that extracts strategic information to be used in decision-making in football, which uses AI along with a series of cameras around the stadium to follow players' movements and instantaneously create virtual offside lines for referees.
FIFA can improve one of the game's most disputed rules with the help of AI. This AI semi-automated system consists of a sensor in the ball and 12 tracking cameras mounted underneath the roof of stadiums, which use ML to track 29 points in players' bodies. And it will roll out the use of AI at the upcoming World Cup to help referees more accurately determine offside positions.
This AI software is used to give precise measurements and create the offside lines that before would have to be drawn manually. Alerts will be sent to officials in a nearby control room, who will validate the decision and tell referees on the field what call to make, which, according to FIFA, will help make accurate decisions on whether to punish the player or not. This removes human error, but ultimately the decision is still made by humans. This approach combines getting humans to do what they do well and getting computers to do what they do well.
Previously, FIFA introduced the VAR system, which also tracked the position of players crossing the offside line at the 2018 World Cup. However, with its help, the judges made dubious decisions about punishing the players, they could only stick out their elbow over this line, but already be in an offside position. The accuracy and speed of a VAR decision in regards to offside will be far quicker. Thereby helping to remove one of the major criticisms of VAR. But this artificial intelligence software can quickly generate animations of what is happening on the field, which will be shown on screen in stadiums and FIFA is proud of this work, as it looks forward to the world seeing the benefits of semi-automated offside technology at the FIFA World Cup 2022.
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