Abstract

This paper describes the effect of positioning the gaze point of a defensive player to predict the movement of an offensive player in a soccer game by using the recognition algorithm. In this research, positioning of the gaze point is systematically varied to predict the movement of the offensive player, target. Here, pattern images of the target moving to the right and left side (directional movement), and sweeping the left or right foot in front of the ball and moving to the right and left side (feint movements) are recorded by a digital camera. The stored feints movements are then matched with the directional movements to predict the direction of movement of the target. The matching system is developed by mimicking brain function for image recognition. Therefore, in using the matching system, we can analyze the gaze point as a system that is similar to the visual information exchange of the retina and brain. The optimum position of the gaze point is then evaluated based on the difference of the matching degree outcome in the opposite directions. Verf.-Referat