Oct 9, 2023 · VAR is an acronym for Video Assistant Referee and it is a suite of software used in football leagues around the world to help the on-pitch referee. VAR is managed on a game-by-game basis by additional support referees.

Aug 30, 2024 · VAR was introduced to the EPL in 2019 in an attempt to reduce the number of incorrect refereeing decisions, including offsides – but its use is still much criticised.

With AI, the future VAR would not require a single human referee to monitor the screens. Instead, using deep learning technology, software would automatically detect when a foul has occurred in real-time and alert the referee instantly when a player should be given a red card.

Jun 13, 2024 · Sports physicist Eric Goff explains how updates to the technology can help referees to make the toughest calls. VAR technology uses cameras, sensors and artificial intelligence to help referees...

Sep 2, 2024 · The impact of AI-powered VAR technology on Euro 2024. Discover how AI is transforming football officiating, influencing player behavior, and shaping the future of the sport.

Feb 21, 2023 · AI has the potential to transform the VAR system in football by providing real-time decision-making support to referees, reducing decision time, providing consistency, and enhancing transparency.

Jun 28, 2024 · At Aecom, our engineers turned to football as part of a thought exercise aimed at inspiring innovative thinking, coming together to consider how video assistant referee (VAR) technology might be improved ahead of the 2024 European Football Championship.

Sep 12, 2023 · AI is more transparent than VAR. AI systems can explain how they arrived at a certain outcome, what factors they considered and what alternatives they explored.

Jan 24, 2024 · Accuracy and Consistency: The primary reason for considering AI over human-operated VAR is the potential for increased accuracy and consistency in decision-making. AI can be programmed to make decisions based on predefined rules and criteria without human biases. It works in industry.

Jul 17, 2024 · In this paper, we present the semi-automated Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) that leverages the latest findings in multi-view video analysis. VARS sets a new state-of-the-art on the SoccerNet-MVFoul dataset, a multi-view video dataset of football fouls.