Artificial Intelligence Set to Play a Major Role in Tokyo Olympics 2020

Tokyo Olympics 2020 is up and running at the moment. Athletes the world over have made their way to Japan as they aim to reach for glory in what is turning out to be a truly unique Olympic experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to multiple complications with respect to regular athlete testing, social distancing and of course, no fans in the stadiums. Some might argue that this doesn’t feel the same. But we must adapt to the ongoing crisis and the IOC is doing their best to give athletes the perfect Olympic experience.

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How artificial intelligence is set to impact Tokyo Olympics 2020?

Toby Breckon, professor in computer vision and image processing at Durham University, is excited to see how sensors and multiple cameras running at 250 frames a second will impact the decision-making process of match umpires.

?What has been done is reasonably impressive. And you would need a large data set to train an AI on all the different moves. But one of the things is accuracy. How often does it get it wrong in terms of those different moves?”

“How often does it lose track of the ball? And also if it works uniformly over all races and genders. Is that 99 percent accuracy on, say, the USA women’s team and 99 percent accuracy on the Ghanaian women’s team??

?What is extremely important, whether it’s for a scoring sport or timing sport, is that we can’t have discrepancies between the explanation of the performance and the ultimate result. So to protect the integrity of the result, we cannot rely on another company. We need to have the expertise to be able to explain the result and how the athletes got there,? Breckon said via wired.com.

It is important to understand that this year’s Olympics will be under immense scrutiny. Japanese locals were against going ahead with the quadrennial showpiece, due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in recent months.

To ensure that the Olympics endures no further malignment, accurate results and conspiracy-free decisions are paramount to the success of this year’s Summer Games.

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