250 research outputs found
Cricket Player Profiling: Unraveling Strengths and Weaknesses Using Text Commentary Data
Devising player-specific strategies in cricket necessitates a meticulous
understanding of each player's unique strengths and weaknesses. Nevertheless,
the absence of a definitive computational approach to extract such insights
from cricket players poses a significant challenge. This paper seeks to address
this gap by establishing computational models designed to extract the rules
governing player strengths and weaknesses, thereby facilitating the development
of tailored strategies for individual players. The complexity of this endeavor
lies in several key areas: the selection of a suitable dataset, the precise
definition of strength and weakness rules, the identification of an appropriate
learning algorithm, and the validation of the derived rules. To tackle these
challenges, we propose the utilization of unstructured data, specifically
cricket text commentary, as a valuable resource for constructing comprehensive
strength and weakness rules for cricket players. We also introduce
computationally feasible definitions for the construction of these rules, and
present a dimensionality reduction technique for the rule-building process. In
order to showcase the practicality of this approach, we conduct an in-depth
analysis of cricket player strengths and weaknesses using a vast corpus of more
than one million text commentaries. Furthermore, we validate the constructed
rules through two distinct methodologies: intrinsic and extrinsic. The outcomes
of this research are made openly accessible, including the collected data,
source code, and results for over 250 cricket players, which can be accessed at
https://bit.ly/2PKuzx8.Comment: The initial work was published in the ICMLA 2019 conferenc
Deep-Learning-Based Computer Vision Approach For The Segmentation Of Ball Deliveries And Tracking In Cricket
There has been a significant increase in the adoption of technology in
cricket recently. This trend has created the problem of duplicate work being
done in similar computer vision-based research works. Our research tries to
solve one of these problems by segmenting ball deliveries in a cricket
broadcast using deep learning models, MobileNet and YOLO, thus enabling
researchers to use our work as a dataset for their research. The output from
our research can be used by cricket coaches and players to analyze ball
deliveries which are played during the match. This paper presents an approach
to segment and extract video shots in which only the ball is being delivered.
The video shots are a series of continuous frames that make up the whole scene
of the video. Object detection models are applied to reach a high level of
accuracy in terms of correctly extracting video shots. The proof of concept for
building large datasets of video shots for ball deliveries is proposed which
paves the way for further processing on those shots for the extraction of
semantics. Ball tracking in these video shots is also done using a separate
RetinaNet model as a sample of the usefulness of the proposed dataset. The
position on the cricket pitch where the ball lands is also extracted by
tracking the ball along the y-axis. The video shot is then classified as a
full-pitched, good-length or short-pitched delivery
Pushing boundaries: Women in Sport and Exercise Conference, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, June 11–12, 2019
The Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network (WiSEAN) was established in 2016 to grow, strengthen and promote research on women in sport and exercise, with the ultimate
goal of optimising women’s athletic success and their participation
Global Media Sport
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. How has globalization impacted on sports media? What are the economic ramifications? And what is the future of sports media? In order to answer these questions, this book investigates the constituents, dimensions and implications of the flows of media sport from the Global West to the Global East, and in the reverse direction. At an historical moment when the relative stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyses a range of key structures, practices and issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place. The book will appraise and analyse the state of sports television, rise of new sports media, emergence of hybrid sport cultural forms, eruption of sport-related political controversies, scandals and power struggles, mutations of forms of global sport fandom, and projections of the future of global media sport. In bringing together the latest research from across a number of disciplines, this book offers an exciting contribution to the emerging field of global sports media
Global Media Sport
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. How has globalization impacted on sports media? What are the economic ramifications? And what is the future of sports media? In order to answer these questions, this book investigates the constituents, dimensions and implications of the flows of media sport from the Global West to the Global East, and in the reverse direction. At an historical moment when the relative stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyses a range of key structures, practices and issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place. The book will appraise and analyse the state of sports television, rise of new sports media, emergence of hybrid sport cultural forms, eruption of sport-related political controversies, scandals and power struggles, mutations of forms of global sport fandom, and projections of the future of global media sport. In bringing together the latest research from across a number of disciplines, this book offers an exciting contribution to the emerging field of global sports media
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