Activity analysis in which multiple people interact across a large space is challenging due to the interplay of individual actions and collective group dynamics. We propose an end-to-end approach for learning person trajectory representations for group activity analysis. The learned representations encode rich spatio-temporal dependencies and capture useful motion patterns for recognizing individual events, as well as characteristic group dynamics that can be used to identify groups from their trajectories alone. We develop our deep learning approach in the context of team sports, which provide well-defined sets of events (e.g. pass, shot) and groups of people (teams). Analysis of events and team formations using NHL hockey and NBA basketball datasets demonstrate the generality of our approach.
Trajectory Data Analytics : There exists significant literature on trajectory analysis focusing on team sports, such as basketball, soccer, and hockey. Applications within sports analytics include analyzing player and team performance, and mining underlying patterns that lead to certain results. Work in this field has included various statistical models to capture the spatio-temporal dynamics in player trajectories. We refer readers to a recent survey @cite_25 on detailed team sports analysis with trajectory data.
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Team-based invasion sports such as football, basketball, and hockey are similar in the sense that the players are able to move freely around the playing area and that player and team performance cannot be fully analysed without considering the movements and interactions of all players as a group. State-of-the-art object tracking systems now produce spatio-temporal traces of player trajectories with high definition and high frequency, and this, in turn, has facilitated a variety of research efforts, across many disciplines, to extract insight from the trajectories. We survey recent research efforts that use spatio-temporal data from team sports as input and involve non-trivial computation. This article categorises the research efforts in a coherent framework and identifies a number of open research questions.