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November 30, 2021 06:59 am

FIFA is trialling limb-tracking tech to catch offside players




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FIFA, the global governing body of the sport variously known as football and soccer, is trialling new technology that tracks players’ limbs to detect whether they’re in an offside position. The system will be employed at the 2021 Arab Cup, which kicks off today in Qatar, the host of next year’s World Cup.


FIFA calls the system “semi-automatic offside technology.” It involves a camera setup installed on the roof of the stadium, with limb data extracted from the video and sent to the match officials’ operating room so the offside line can be calculated in real time. The BBC reports that 10 to 12 cameras collect up to 29 data points for each player 50 times a second.






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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/30/22809396/fifa-limb-tracking-arab-cup-world-offside-technology

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