Impact Project Presentation: “Exploring Biometric Data Detection in Football Matches”

Programme

10:45 | Registration and Welcome Coffee

Event presentation by: Marco Orellana, CIDAI Manager

11:00 | Institutional Welcome
Arnau Serra, Head of the Technical Service Centre of the Secretariat for Digital Policies of the Government of Catalonia
Joan Mas i Albaigès, Director of CIDAI and Scientific Director of Digital Technologies at Eurecat
Josep M. Monti, President of HUB23 and the Sports World Congress

11:15 | Context of AI Applied to Sports
Luis Ferraz, Head of AI at Kognia Sports Intelligence

11:25 | Pose Estimation: Definition and State of the Art
Coen Antens, Head of the Innovation Unit at the Computer Vision Center (CVC)
Rafael Redondo, Head of the Image Line in the Multimedia Technologies Unit at Eurecat

Body position detection in football players.
A review of the state of the art in Human Pose Detection and an experimental analysis of the most recent methods applied to football matches. The session will explain dataset curation and explore the most commonly used neural network architectures and their performance in real‑world environments. The goal is to identify the most efficient approaches for accurate and real‑time detection of players’ posture.

11:55 | Open Q&A

12:15 | End of Event