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Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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There are a couple of other products in the market doing very similar things. Have you done any work on positioning or differentiation? There is space for different options for sure.

I'd love to see if you can turn this into an affordable virtual offside system for smaller leagues.

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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This is great, and I hope people enjoy it, I tried to do something similar years ago commercially, and so I'll ask: please make sure you keep it as a passion project - turning this into a money spinner could lead to disappointment. I was on the winning team for what I believe was the EPL's first and only hackathon at Manchester City back in 2016 or thereabouts. It was a while back. That hackathon used a couple of dat…

Thank you so much for your insightful comment. I genuinely appreciate the time you took to share your knowledge and experiences.

I'll take your advice about keeping this project as a passion rather than being desperate for profits seriously. Certainly, I'll need to face several issues, such as budget constraints, data, and process issues, like your anecdote about Yaya Toure's nearly supersonic shot.

All you mentioned will help a lot to make it thrive, especially the opportunities you found in high school football.

I'm grateful for the guidance you've provided to me. Thanks again!

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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post #21

There are a couple of other products in the market doing very similar things. Have you done any work on positioning or differentiation? There is space for different options for sure. I'd love to see if you can turn this into an affordable virtual offside system for smaller leagues.

Also, don't forget referee tracking. Higher level referees work hard on being the right places at the right time, so having some data showing their position at KMI as well as some way to measure their ability to anticipate would be valuable.

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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Does this work in real time? Considered gambling applications?

It doesn't work real time yet, the analysis is made after the video is completed. But it'd be a good feature to add.

Didn't considered gambling, how it would be? It'd be ike generating win or goals probabilities per minute?

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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If someone wanted to make something like this for tennis I have several large academies that would love to use it (could easily get a couple co-founders like the UTR founder to offer it to the tournament circuits and associations and make it a robust business)

You may want to reach out to the PlayReplay team, I saw this post about their work which looks quite cool: https://www.rerun.io/blog/playreplay

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Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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Cool. I've been thinking about where to find an alternative to the Veo Technologies camera system that most clubs use but is pretty expensive. This seems like it could work

Yeah, of course, this is a low-cost alternative, since you have to use your own camera or phone. These are examples of videos we've successfully processed: * https://youtu.be/SxGV5W5Ka7M?si=kYNIe3tzoFm_-DKw * https://youtu.be/HUUcLKZKmfg?si=Xpcj4AtK5wOZwMot Just have to put the camera in a fixed position, and that's all. If you have any video like that, I can generate a video analysis for you in exchange for feedback…

how difficult would it be to translate this to other sports (specifically hockey?)

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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This is not a valid Show HN - you have to have something more than a signup list for people to try out. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I appreciate that you have a demo of the project working on one video, but the title claims that people can try it on their own, and for that the web page seems to just be collecting signups. Most likely it would be best to do a Show HN once it's working in a form people can try directly.

(I've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.)

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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Really cool! Was thinking to build something similar myself as a side project. What is the tech stack? I would be curious to learn more about how it works.

Thanks! Well flask, streamlit, plotly, opencv, docker, a trained object detection model (Faster RCNN or YOLO, there is not much difference). Google Cloud Run, some storage services on GCP, full python, react for front-end, and that's all.

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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If someone wanted to make something like this for tennis I have several large academies that would love to use it (could easily get a couple co-founders like the UTR founder to offer it to the tournament circuits and associations and make it a robust business)

Have you checked SwingVision (https://swing.tennis/)?

Re: Soccer video analysis from your match videos

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, of course, this is a low-cost alternative, since you have to use your own camera or phone. These are examples of videos we've successfully processed: * https://youtu.be/SxGV5W5Ka7M?si=kYNIe3tzoFm_-DKw * https://youtu.be/HUUcLKZKmfg?si=Xpcj4AtK5wOZwMot Just have to put the camera in a fixed position, and that's all. If you have any video like that, I can generate a video analysis for you in exchange for feedback…

how difficult would it be to translate this to other sports (specifically hockey?)

It won't be any hard, as we simply gather players' positions and generate stats accordingly. The number of players or the size of the pitch doesn't affect the process.

I'm interested in trying a hockey video. You can contact me here if you are interested as well: futvissoftware@gmail.com

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