Edinburgh: Sometimes machine faults can be ridiculous. The latest example of this is a video that went viral on social media a few days ago in which the automatic camera repeatedly turns to the bald umpire instead of the football, causing the viewers to watch the umpire instead of the actual match. ۔
The incident took place on October 24 during a match during the “Scottish Championship”, in which teams from Caledonian Thistle and Air United competed.
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Due to the Corona epidemic, the football stadium was completely empty of spectators and all the matches could only be watched through the sports channel. Meanwhile, spectators noticed that the camera repeatedly deviated from the original ball and turned toward the shining head of the bald umpire, who had been standing in the empty part of the field for a long time.
The result was that the football fans, instead of watching the game on some important occasions of this match, kept watching the bald umpire’s head and the other side scored a goal.
According to the details, the management of the Scottish Championship has signed a contract with Pixellot, a US company that manufactures artificial intelligence “FourK sports cameras” to automate its live broadcasts this year. Was
It was then proudly announced that this year’s Scottish Championship live broadcast would use “intelligent and automated cameras” that would require no human to control.
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However, both the Scottish Championship administration and Pixlot were embarrassed by the incident, after which the Pixlot company said in a statement that their automatic cameras had been attacked by a hacker, but that half of the compensation was paid to Scottish. Returning the championship to the administration.