In Qatar world Cup 2022 Semi_Automated Offside will Be Used

 FIFA has announced that at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which will begin on November 21, it will be possible to use a semi-automatic offside detection system, which will become an auxiliary tool for video service employees and duty officers, helping them make faster, more accurate and reproducible decisions about offside. at the highest level.

After the successful use of the VAR era at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, FIFA President Gianni Infantino stated in Vision 2020-23 that FIFA could try to use the full potential of ERA in football and further beautify VAR. In the next 3 years, FIFA really found itself at the forefront of technology in the game. 

Working with Adidas and other partners, and in particular with the Working Group on Innovation Excellence and Technological Developments, FIFA has spent the last few years improving the VAR system, consisting of the use of semi-automatic offside generation.

How Semi_Automated Offside Technology Used?

The new technology uses 12 special surveillance cameras installed under the stadium roof to adjust the ball and up to 29 information factors of each individual participant, 50 cases per second, calculating their specific position on the field. The 29 information points collected include all limbs and limbs that are relevant to making offside calls. 

Al Rihla, an authentic healthy Adidas ball for Qatar 2022™, will be an equally important element for detecting cases of hard offside since an inertial measurement device (IMU)sensor can be installed inside the ball. This sensor, located in the center of the ball, sends data about the ball to the video room 500 times per second, which allows you to very accurately determine the impact coefficient.

 

Combining limb and ball monitoring records and using artificial intelligence, the new era automatically notifies offside video service staff in the operating room every time the ball is received by an attacker who was in an offside position at the time the ball is played using a teammate. Before reporting this to the field referee, the video service staff confirms the proposed solution by manually checking the impact coefficient selected by the robot and the automatically created offside line, which is completely based on the calculated positions of the players' limbs. This method takes place within a few seconds and allows you to make a choice in favor of offside faster and more adequately.

After the selection has been shown by the match officials and the referee on the field, the exact identical positional facts that were used to make the decision are then generated directly into a three-dimensional animation that perfectly details the location of the players' limbs at the time when the ball was turned into a completed one. This 3D animation, which allows you to constantly show first-class possible variants of the offside scenario, will then be shown on huge monitors at the stadium, and will also be available to FIFA broadcast partners to tell all viewers inside in the most visual way. 

The workflow of semi-automatic offside generation and the associated ball era have been correctly tested at several test events and at FIFA tournaments, including the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup and the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup.

During these attacks, a whole new generation was able to support video-healthy officials, helping them make more correct and more reproducible offside choices in a shorter period of time.

Chairman of FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina:

“VAR has already had a completely beneficial effect on football, and we see that the number of the most important mistakes has already been significantly reduced. We hope that semi-automatic offside technology can move us one step further. We know that from time to time the technique of checking for probable offside takes a lot of time, especially at a time when an offside incident can be very stressful. It is in this case that semi-automatic offside technology is available, providing a faster and more accurate choice.”

“The trial was a major achievement, and we are confident that in Qatar we will have a very valuable support device that will help the referees and assistant referees make an exceptional and most correct decision regarding the sphere of the game. I admit that someone called it "robotic offside"; now it's not. The referees and assistant referees are still responsible for choosing the playground.”

FIFA Director, Johannes Holzmüller:

“We can have a semi-automatic offside installation with 12 cameras and an official healthy ball with connected ball generation at all stadiums of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The new era will provide video recorders with real-time offside warnings using artificial intelligence. Since video-healthy judges can perfectly control these results, we nevertheless discuss the gadget as a "semi-automated offside", because video-healthy judges must confirm the proposed choice, and then inform the judge on the topic. Using the exact same recordings to create a three-dimensional animation for fans at the stadium and viewers, fans will get a brief and correct visualization of the offside scenario. This technique has been changed to advanced using the FIFA Fan Experience Panel.”