Title
Tackling Similarity Search for Soccer Match Analysis: Multimodal Distance Measure and Interactive Query Definition
Abstract
AbstractAnalysts and coaches in soccer sports need to investigate large sets of past matches of opposing teams in a short time to prepare their teams for upcoming matches. Thus, they need appropriate methods and systems supporting them in searching for soccer moves for comparison and explanation. For the search of similar soccer moves, established distance and similarity measures typically only take spatiotemporal features like shape and speed of movement into account. However, movement in invasive team sports such as soccer includes much more than just a sequence of spatial locations. We propose an enhanced similarity measure integrating spatial, player, event as well as high level context such as pressure into the process of similarity search. We present a visual search system supporting analysts in interactively identifying similar contextual enhanced soccer moves in a dataset containing more than 60 soccer matches. Our approach is evaluated by several expert studies. The results of the evaluation reveal the large potential of enhanced similarity measures in the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MCG.2019.2922224
Periodicals
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
39
5
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0272-1716
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel Stein144.49
Halldor Janetzko231220.69
Tobias Schreck31854123.28
Daniel A. Keim477041141.60