Semi-automated offside: Premier League to introduce technology on April 12th
The system aims to remove some elements of human subjectivity by replacing the decisions taken by officials with the automated ones taken by technology.
At present, when a player marks Borderline offside, the officials of the referee assistant (VAR) officials must decide on three key things – when the ball was kicked, where – and at what point – the defender’s body was when the ball was kicked and where – and what corner – the attacker’s body was.
All three of these decisions will now be automatically taken from technology.
The custom -made cameras, which will monitor a variety of key elements involved in any offside decision, have been installed under the roof in all 20 stadiums of the Premier League.
The cameras will follow the exact movement of the ball and 10,000 surface mesh data points on the bodies of all 22 players, which means that it can be automatically determined if the body of a striker’s player was beyond the last defender at the exact time in the ball.
Artificial intelligence manages the process, monitoring the movement of the ball and the player, before making a decision on the fact that the player was alongside or offside.
The VAR officials control that the system has correctly determined the three key points that measures before confirming the decision. The officials on the field therefore inform the players.
A 3D animation of the decision produced by artificial intelligence will therefore be played on television for spectators at home and on the big screens in the stadium.
