'The end goal is to do tracking in real time and to enable an automatic evaluation of players. You will be able to precisely tell what are their strengths and weaknesses, in which position they should play and so on,' explains Tauseef Ali, a postdoctoral researcher and the main coordinator of project BallJames, which aims to provide the best available tracking of soccer matches.
New tracking algorithm
BallJames is a project funded by SciSports, a UT based company with the motto 'science serving football'. Most recently, the project has successfully reached the end of its first phase, during which the researchers managed to track players and the ball on a small playing field.
Read more about BallJames in the December issue of UT Nieuws Magazine.
