Artificial intelligence approaches in sport

Abstract

The role of digital technology in sport has seen increasing use. For example, video recordings from stationary cameras are now almost mainstream, enabling coaches and athletes to painstakingly examine performance by pausing, rewinding, and slowly advancing video data (frame by frame) to examine fine motor movements. However, subjective opinion and visual observation provide limited insight. Contemporary approaches are seeing the use of, e.g., wearables and artificial intelligence (AI) to generate high-resolution data with objective and speedier approaches to analysis. In this chapter, we explore how wearables and AI-based computer vision are informing a range of sports to better inform performance as well as injury analysis. Adopted here is an explainable AI (XAI) approach to ensure openness in how contemporary digital tools can be implemented and developed to avoid a black-box-based approach. Accordingly, this chapter will serve to expose those with a less technical background to some pragmatic examples of how sports technology is changing within the digital age.

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