AWS Machine Learning Blog
Category: Sports
Optimize F1 aerodynamic geometries via Design of Experiments and machine learning
FORMULA 1 (F1) cars are the fastest regulated road-course racing vehicles in the world. Although these open-wheel automobiles are only 20–30 kilometers (or 12–18 miles) per-hour faster than top-of-the-line sports cars, they can speed around corners up to five times as fast due to the powerful aerodynamic downforce they create. Downforce is the vertical force […]
Live transcriptions of F1 races using Amazon Transcribe
The Formula 1 (F1) live steaming service, F1 TV, has live automated closed captions in three different languages: English, Spanish, and French. For the 2021 season, FORMULA 1 has achieved another technological breakthrough, building a fully automated workflow to create closed captions in three languages and broadcasting to 85 territories using Amazon Transcribe. Amazon Transcribe […]
Automatically detect sports highlights in video with Amazon SageMaker
July 2023: Please refer to the Media Replay Engine (MRE) solution presented in this Github repo instead, for the latest and more efficient solution for this use case. MRE is a framework for building automated video clipping and replay (highlight) generation pipelines using AWS services for live and video-on-demand (VOD) content. Extracting highlights from a […]
The development of Bundesliga Match Fact Passing Profile, a deep dive into passing in football
This post was authored by Simon Rolfes. Simon played 288 Bundesliga games as a central midfielder, scored 41 goals, and won 26 caps for Germany. Currently, he serves as Sporting Director at Bayer 04 Leverkusen, where he oversees and develops the pro player roster, the scouting department, and the club’s youth development. Simon also writes […]
How Intel Olympic Technology Group built a smart coaching SaaS application by deploying pose estimation models – Part 1
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. The Intel Olympic Technology Group (OTG), a division within Intel focused on bringing cutting-edge technology to Olympic athletes, collaborated with AWS Machine Learning Professional Services (MLPS) to build a smart coaching software […]
Enhance sports narratives with natural language generation using Amazon SageMaker
This blog post was co-authored by Arbi Tamrazian, Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at Fox Sports. FOX Sports is the sports television arm of FOX Network. The company used machine learning (ML) and Amazon SageMaker to streamline the production of relevant in-game storylines for commentators to use during live broadcasts. “We collaborated with […]
Estimating 3D pose for athlete tracking using 2D videos and Amazon SageMaker Studio
In preparation for the upcoming Olympic Games, Intel®, an American multinational corporation and one of the world’s largest technology companies, developed a concept around 3D Athlete Tracking (3DAT). 3DAT is a machine learning (ML) solution to create real-time digital models of athletes in competition in order to increase fan engagement during broadcasts. Intel was looking […]
Helmet detection error analysis in football videos using Amazon SageMaker
The National Football League (NFL) is America’s most popular sports league. Founded in 1920, the NFL developed the model for the successful modern sports league and is committed to advancing progress in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of sports-related injuries. Health and safety efforts include support for independent medical research and engineering advancements in addition […]
Explaining Bundesliga Match Facts xGoals using Amazon SageMaker Clarify
One of the most exciting AWS re:Invent 2020 announcements was a new Amazon SageMaker feature, purpose built to help detect bias in machine learning (ML) models and explain model predictions: Amazon SageMaker Clarify. In today’s world where predictions are made by ML algorithms at scale, it’s increasingly important for large tech organizations to be able […]
Multimodal deep learning approach for event detection in sports using Amazon SageMaker
Have you ever thought about how artificial intelligence could be used to detect events during live sports broadcasts? With machine learning (ML) techniques, we introduce a scalable multimodal solution for event detection on sports video data. Recent developments in deep learning show that event detection algorithms are performing well on sports data [1]; however, they’re […]