FIFA 2022 To Adopt Semi Automated Offside Technology in Decision Making
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Roshan Amiri
- . July 1, 2022
- . Update: July 2, 2022 12:37 pm
Qatar– Artificial intelligence is going to be ruling the roost at the forthcoming FIFA World Cup 2022. This technology, the FIFA administration has confirmed will half the processing time towards making VAR offside decisions.
Positional offside decisions are always tricky. But this new system that will be used to judge these towards a lead-up to a goal. This technology called the Semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) is going to help do away with rewind and recheck videos for accurate judgment call.
Needless to say, despite the use of SAOT, the referee’s decision will be the final say. Speaking about the use of this new AI enabled method of accessing goals, Pierluigi Collina, the chair of FIFA’s referees committee, said, “Semi-automated offside technology is faster and more accurate and offers better communication to fans. It can create a new form of visualisation for supporters at home and in the ground. All tests have worked well and so [SAOT] is going into Qatar World Cup 2022.”
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Adding on more to the magic of technology is that the football is also going to be fixed with a chip inserted into it, sends out location data 500 times per second, which will be matched against player positions on camera, with synchronised devices tracking 29 points on players’ bodies and relaying information 50 times per second. The ball being used is called the Adidas Al Rihla ball. Further, the offsite reviews will be easily conducted by creating a 3D map of the goalscoring action, using a combination of 12 cameras and a hi-tech ball.
Speeding up decisions is primarily meant to satiate the impatience in viewers. “It has a psychological effect,” said Collina. It has had its criticisms too. Once a decision is made a 3D rendering of the offside incident will be shown on television and on screens in the World Cup stadiums. Collina said that the image would be easier to interpret for the viewer than previous TV pictures with lines drawn across them, but that the images would take an extra 25 seconds to generate.
