Player Performance Profiling for Penalty Shootouts in Football Using Video Analysis
Md. Tarique Habibullah, Md. Al Musabbir Islam, Nahian Bin Alam, Fahad Shabbir Ahmed · 2020
The purpose of this research is to detect and track football, kick taker and goalkeeper in a penalty shoot and use their tracking data to check whether the shot ends up as goal or not with the innate intention of creating a player profile. YOLOv2, a state-of-the-art real time object detection system was used to detect ball, kick taker and goalkeeper. OpenCV was used to track the trajectory of the ball then calculate the probability of goal by statistically using these data of goalkeeper, kick taker and ball. In the end the application performed well tracking the ball and extracts goalkeeper and kick takers data. The application also finds out whether the shot was goal or not. This data can also be used to find out a players strong shooting area it can also find a goalkeeper's weak point as well.