Olympic Sports Events Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Shahana Shultana, Md. Shakil Moharram, Nafis Neehal

Abstract: The analysis of different sports data to get valuable insight has become immensely important nowadays. Profuse application of Artificial Intelligence in different sectors has become a very popular trend as well. However, the application of AI in sports analytics is still a new research domain left for exploration. With a view to applying AI in sports analytics, we have deployed Inception V3 and MobileNet which are Google’s most popular Convolutional Neural Networks to successfully recognize five different sports events from a huge image dataset of these events. Both of the models have achieved a very high performance in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and f-measure while applied to the target dataset for successful classification.