The demand for video analysis has been rapidly increasing in the last decade. Video
analysis plays a critical role in various technologies, including medical diagnosis, security …

Nowadays, soccer is the most popular sport in our society, followed by millions of people.
Consequently, many video analysis applications have been developed in the last years to …

There is a growth of demand for automatically analyzing soccer matches and tactics. Since
players are the focus of attentions in soccer matches, player tracking is a fundamental …

In a soccer game, the information provided by detecting and tracking brings crucial clues to
further analyze and understand some tactical aspects of the game, including individual and …

Camera calibration has attracted much attention, as a primary step of various soccer game
analyses, such as real-world player tracking and offside detection. Moreover, metric …

This paper proposes a strategy for the automatic registration of soccer images on a model of
the field of play. First, a robust and efficient preprocessing is applied to discard the areas of …

More and more devices become network enabled and are integrated within one large,
distributed system. The service-oriented paradigm is the main concept to implement this …

Action spotting in soccer videos is the task of identifying the specific time when a certain key
action of the game occurs. Lately, it has received a large amount of attention and powerful …

This review explores the avenues for the application of meta-heuristics in sports. The
necessity of sophisticated algorithms to investigate different NP hard problems encountered …

With billions of fans, football is a rapidly expanding sport that has proven essential to many
nations and their citizens in particular. Some of the difficulties and the key challenges are …