Call for Papers
Important Dates
Submission: May 5, 2021, end of day (anywhere-on-earth time).
Notification: May 25, 2021
Workshop: Held virtually on August 17, 2021
Call for Papers
We seek papers that present cohesive contributions or works in progress related to the following topics in machine learning, game theory, and/or computer vision for sports analytics; we particularly welcome papers targeting topics at the intersection of multiple of these fields. In terms of application domains, papers should be focused on the analysis of sports (e.g., football, basketball, hockey, baseball, tennis, swimming, running). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Representation learning and aggregate statistics
Player and team-level statistics, vectors, and/or learned embeddings for analysis of in-game situations
Modeling and learning of player/team rankings, strengths, and weaknesses
Data processing, filtering, and visualisation techniques/demos
Evaluation of actions, trajectories and strategies, and learning of optimal policies
Value estimation during in-game situations (e.g., action-values for actions and players)
Detection and optimization of in-game tactics
Reinforcement learning for sports analytics
Game-theoretic and multi-agent aspects
Predictive and prescriptive analysis of set pieces and in-game play
Learning of coordination of player and team behaviors
Transfer and imitation learning of human play
Synergy or “chemistry” of groups of players
Physical and human factors
Physics-simulation of real play
Human factors such as injury and fatigue predictions
Video-based modeling
Event detection and activity recognition
Pose detection
Generative modeling of video data
We invite authors to submit one of two types of papers:
Research papers on new findings, maximum 6 pages (excluding references) in IJCAI double column format, which will be reviewed by our program committee, and will be presented as talks and/or posters.
Extended abstracts summarizing previously published/submitted work, maximum 2 pages (excluding references) in IJCAI double column format. These works will undergo a light-touch review/check by the organizing committee, and will be presented in the poster session.
Submission instructions:
Submissions should be anonymous and use the IJCAI author kit https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit
Submit compiled PDF versions of papers to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisa2021 (i.e., no latex source is necessary).