Incident 80: AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued

Description: In a Scottish soccer match the AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used to livestream the game repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head as though it were the soccer ball.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, which harmed livestream viewers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
80
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-10-24
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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Full Description

Scottish soccer team Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club uses cameras with AI ball-tracking to livestream their matches on YouTube. In a 2020 match against Ayr United, a camera repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head, thinking it was the soccer ball.

Short Description

In a Scottish soccer match the AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used to livestream the game repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head as though it were the soccer ball.

Severity

Negligible

Harm Type

Psychological harm

AI System Description

AI ball-tracking techology using video feed to determine and follow a ball in order to keep the game in focus

System Developer

Unknown

Sector of Deployment

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Relevant AI functions

Perception, Cognition, Action

AI Techniques

supervised learning

AI Applications

image classification, image recognition

Location

Inverness, Scotland, UK

Named Entities

Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, Ayr United, YouTube

Technology Purveyor

Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club

Beginning Date

2020-10-24T07:00:00.000Z

Ending Date

2020-10-24T07:00:00.000Z

Near Miss

Harm caused

Intent

Accident

Lives Lost

No

Data Inputs

video feed, pre-tagged soccer match imagery

Soccer match ruined when AI-controlled camera mistakes ref’s bald head for ball
sbnation.com · 2020

Technology in sports is a beautiful thing, but sometimes even the greatest inventions can go wrong. This happened over the weekend in a soccer game in Scotland, when an AI-controlled camera got confused, and thought a lineman’s bald head wa…

AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued
thenextweb.com · 2020

Top football leagues and teams around the world have TV crews and streaming services at their disposal to broadcast matches to fans across the globe. However, because of the coronavirus pandemic, smaller football teams are relying on AI-pow…

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