Video-based Analysis of Soccer Matches

TL;DR

This paper reviews and categorizes various visualization techniques for video-based soccer match analysis, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and open research questions to enhance strategic planning and performance analysis.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview and classification of existing methods for video-based soccer analysis, identifying research gaps and future directions.

Findings

Many visualization techniques exist but are underutilized in video analysis.

Identified advantages and disadvantages of current approaches.

Open research questions to improve soccer match analysis.

Abstract

With the increasingly detailed investigation of game play and tactics in invasive team sports such as soccer, it becomes ever more important to present causes, actions and findings in a meaningful manner. Visualizations, especially when augmenting relevant information directly inside a video recording of a match, can significantly improve and simplify soccer match preparation and tactic planning. However, while many visualization techniques for soccer have been developed in recent years, few have been directly applied to the video-based analysis of soccer matches. This paper provides a comprehensive overview and categorization of the methods developed for the video-based visual analysis of soccer matches. While identifying the advantages and disadvantages of the individual approaches, we identify and discuss open research questions, soon enabling analysts to develop winning strategies more efficiently, do rapid failure analysis or identify weaknesses in opposing teams.