The paper introduces a landmark-based approach for classifying injury-associated athlete sessions using minute-resolution multimodal football monitoring data. Instead of labeling every minute, it creates a single representation per athlete-session at fixed time points (landmarks) that incorporates information up to that moment, thereby aligning the session-level injury label with the data. Experiments on 3,743 elite women's football athlete-sessions from the 2020 SoccerMon dataset evaluate various representation strategies and machine learning models, reporting ROC-AUC values between 0.367 and 0.607 and PR-AUC values between 0.0080 and 0.0150, with notable uncertainty across landmarks.
By Evangelos Chatzidimitriou, Konstantinos Tserpes
AI Soccer Analyst is a mixed‑initiative system that guides analysts through six revisable stages—Data Understanding, Problem Definition, Structured Planning, Execution, Evidence‑Grounded Reporting, and Interaction and Refinement—to produce soccer data analyses. A formative study with five analysts shaped design goals around automation, verifiability, human control, and accessibility, while a task‑based evaluation with 16 participants showed that 33 of 48 tasks met completion criteria and participants reported high quality, reliability, and verifiability of outputs. Interaction logs revealed that domain knowledge emerged during clarification, planning, and refinement, demonstrating that stage‑aware human‑AI collaboration can produce inspectable, revisable, and verifiable analyses while keeping domain experts in control.
By Calvin Yeung, Keisuke Fujii
The paper introduces a landmark‑based approach to classify injury‑associated athlete sessions using minute‑resolution multimodal football monitoring data. Instead of labeling every minute, it creates a single representation per athlete‑session at fixed time points (landmarks) based on information up to that moment, thereby aligning the session‑level injury label with the data. Experiments on 3,743 elite women’s football sessions show that cumulative and dynamic logistic regression models achieve ROC‑AUCs between 0.367 and 0.607, though results carry wide uncertainty.
The paper introduces PART, a multimodal predictive framework for tennis that combines physiological, training, sleep, questionnaire, jump, and video data from nine collegiate players to assess overall wellness, injury risk, physical capability, and playing style. Using machine learning and deep learning, PART provides holistic athlete assessments and forecasts specific injury risks to body areas such as elbows and knees. Evaluation shows strong performance in predicting wellness and injury risk, with potential benefits for recreational players who often injure themselves due to poor technique.
By Francisco Erramuspe Alvarez, Shobharani Polasa, Weihao Qu, Jay Wang, Ling Zheng
arXiv:2607. 26061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-match tactical decision-making in professional football relies heavily on subjective expert analysis and identity-based scouting systems that cannot generalize to unseen teams.
By Mouad Zemzoumi, Amine Abouaomar
arXiv:2606. 09842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applying Human Pose Estimation (HPE) in real world environments remains a challenging task, this paper explores and surveys real time HPE approaches and their limitations in sports analysis for individuals, alongside developing a practical lightweight prototype for real world testing and usage.
By Parth Agrawal, Ronit, Sagar Kumar, Aashish Bhambri