Football AI Tutorial: From Basics to Advanced Stats with Python

Let's build a Football AI system to dig deeper into match stats! We'll use computer vision and machine learning to track players, determine which team is which, and even calculate stuff like ball possession and speed. This tutorial is perfect if you want to get hands-on with sports analytics and see how AI can take your football analysis to the next level.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Football (Soccer) AI: The Next Level
00:00:58 Architectural Blueprint: Models & Tools for Football AI
00:03:14 YOLOv8 Fine-Tuning: Optimizing for Football Object Detection
00:12:22 Deploying YOLOv8 with Inference
00:27:37 ByteTrack: Robust Multi-Object Tracking
00:29:38 Embedding Analysis: Clustering Players with SigLIP & UMAP
00:51:46 Perspective Transformation: Homography Fundamentals
00:53:03 YOLOv8x-pose Training: Precise Pitch Landmark Detection
01:01:24 Keypoint Inference: Real-Time Pitch Understanding
01:06:27 Homography Application: Virtual Lines & Field Overlay
01:13:23 Top-Down Projection: Creating a Tactical Radar View
01:22:04 Spatial Analysis: Ball Territory
01:26:34 Implementation Challenges
01:28:29 Beyond the Basics: What Else is Possible?

Resources:

Roboflow: https://roboflow.com

🔴 Community Session Aug 29th, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST / 05:00 PM CET:    • Football AI | Community Q&A (Aug 29)  

⚽ Roboflow Sports repository: https://github.com/roboflow/sports

🏞️ ball, players, and referees detection dataset: https://universe.roboflow.com/roboflo...
🏞️ pitch keypoints detection dataset: https://universe.roboflow.com/roboflo...

📓 ball, players, and referees detection model training notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/git...
📓 pitch keypoints detection model training notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/git...
📓 football AI notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/git...

⚽ Ball Tracking in Sports with Computer Vision blog post: https://blog.roboflow.com/tracking-ba...
⚽ Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints blog post: https://blog.roboflow.com/camera-cali...

Stay updated with the projects I'm working on at https://github.com/roboflow and https://github.com/SkalskiP! ⭐