Qatar Football World Cup: Semi-automated offside technology to be used at FIFA World Cup 2022

Qatar Football World Cup: Semi-automated offside technology to be used at FIFA World Cup 2022 FIFA has announced that semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) will be used at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar starting November 21, providing a video support tool for officials and stadium officials to help them perform faster, more precisely as well as repeated offside decisions in the largest category.

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In what can be considered a remarkable improvement in in-game management, technology will be able to resolve offside calls with unparalleled speed and accuracy in less than a decade, reports the Reuters news agency. Using well-positioned cameras in stadiums and football sensors, FIFA said the technology would go a long way in reducing the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) referee's ongoing decisions regarding offside calls and reducing the time required for testing.

The term semi-automated is used because FIFA insists that match officials will make one last call, with a dedicated VAR assistant to monitor the dispute, AFP added. Announcing the decision on Friday, FIFA said in a statement: Following the successful use of VAR technology at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced in The Vision 2020-23 that FIFA would try to use the full technological power of football and develop VAR. For the next three years, FIFA continued to be on the cutting edge of technology in the game. Working with Adidas and various partners, and in particular the Innovative Working Group and technology providers, FIFA has spent the last few years developing the VAR system, which includes the use of flexible offside technology.

The new technology uses 12 dedicated tracking cameras installed under the roof of the stadium to track the ball and up to 29 data points per player, 50 times per second, to calculate their exact location on the field. The 29 collected data points include all the limbs and limbs suitable for making side calls.

Al Rihla, the official Adidas football game of Qatar World Cup 2022, will provide another important feature for solving offline events as the inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor will be inserted inside the ball. This sensor, located in the center of the ball, sends the ball data into the operating room 500 times per second, allowing for the most accurate detection of a kick point.

By combining organ and ball tracking data and using Artificial Intelligence, the new technology provides an offside automatic warning to video game managers within the video operating room whenever the ball is received by an attacker who was in the audience at the time the ball was played by a colleague.

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Before notifying the referee on the field, video game officials confirm the proposed decision by personally inspecting the automatically selected kicking area and the automatically created offside line, based on the calculated area of the players' organs. This process takes place in a matter of minutes and means that decisions about non-compliance can be made faster and faster, explains FIFA.

After the decision has been confirmed by the video game officials and the referee on the field, the exact data points used to make the decision are then produced into 3D animations that best describe the position of the players' limbs on the field at the moment the ball is played. These 3D animations, which will always show the best views of the neutral, will be displayed on the big screens of the stadium and will be made available to FIFA broadcast partners to inform all viewers as clearly as possible.

SAOT will bring a sense of the future, of years of space in the game, with viewers able to see some of the 3D animations as VAR resolutions are visualized on a large arena screen. The flow of automated offsite technology and connected football technologies has been successfully tested at numerous live and live events in FIFA tournaments, including the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 and the FIFA Club World Cup 2021.

During these games, new technologies have been able to support video game officials by helping them make the right and repetitive decisions offline in a short period. Data collected during online and offline testing has been analyzed and validated by the MIT Sports Lab, with TRACK Victoria University scientifically validating organ tracking technology.

Further insight into the technical capabilities of such multi-camera tracking systems is provided by the ETH Zurich research team. More tests will be done in the coming months to better prepare the system before the international standard is used to ensure that new technologies can be applied to the world of football.

All details on the set of automatic offsite technology and connected football technology will be presented to the Qatar World Cup 2022 winning teams at Team Workshop in Doha on July 4 and 5 and shared with the public. At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, FIFA took a bold step in implementing VAR technology in the largest category in the world, and it has been an undeniable success. Semi-automated offside technology is the emergence of VAR systems implemented worldwide.

The technology is the culmination of three years of dedicated research and testing to provide the best teams, players, and fans who will head to Qatar later this year, and FIFA is proud of this work, as we look forward to the world recognizing the benefits of offside automation technology at the Qatar Football World Cup. FIFA is committed to using technology to improve the game of football at all levels, as well as the use of automatic offside technology at the Qatar World Cup 2022, Infantino. Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, commented: The VAR has already had a very positive impact on football and we can see that the number of major errors has already been dramatically reduced. We expect automated offsite technology to take us one step further. For more to know about Football World Cup tickets Click here.

We know that sometimes the offside test process takes a very long time, especially if the hearing incident is severe. This is where automated offside technology comes into play - providing faster and more accurate decisions. The test has been a great success and we are very confident that, in Qatar, we will have a very useful support tool to help referees and assistant referees make the best and most appropriate decisions on the field of play.

I know someone called it a robot offside, it is not. The referee and assistant referee are still facing a decision on the pitch. Johannes Holzmüller, FIFA's director of Football Technology & Innovation, adds: We will have a 12-camera semi-off-set set-up and an official football match with football technology connected to all stadiums of the FIFA World Cup 2022.

The new technology will enable video game officials to execute real-time offside alerts using artificial intelligence. Since video game officials will control the quality of these results, we still call the system ‘semi-automated offside’ as video game officials must confirm the proposed decision and notify the referee on the field. By using the same data to create 3D animation for stage fans and TV viewers, fans will get a quick and accurate view of the disobedience situation. The process was enhanced with input from the FIFA Follower Panel.

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