Title
Exploring the Long Short-Term Dependencies to Infer Shot Influence in Badminton Matches
Abstract
Identifying significant shots in a rally is important for evaluating players' performance in badminton matches. While there are several studies that have quantified player performance in other sports, analyzing badminton data is remained untouched. In this paper, we introduce a badminton language to fully describe the process of the shot and propose a deep learning model composed of a novel short-term extractor and a long-term encoder for capturing a shot-by-shot sequence in a badminton rally by framing the problem as predicting a rally result. Our model incorporates an attention mechanism to enable the transparency of the action sequence to the rally result, which is essential for badminton experts to gain interpretable predictions. Experimental evaluation based on a real-world dataset demonstrates that our proposed model outperforms the strong baselines. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/wywyWang/Shot-Influence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICDM51629.2021.00178
2021 21ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING (ICDM 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
sport analytics, badminton language representation, shot influence, attention mechanism
Conference
1550-4786
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei-Yao Wang100.34
Teng-Fong Chan200.34
Hui-Kuo Yang300.34
Chih-Chuan Wang401.01
Yao-Chung Fan53212.53
Wen-Chih Peng61645106.49