Predicting Shot Events in Ice Hockey

As part of my Masters of Computer Science, I wrote a thesis on predicting shot events in ice hockey using broadcast footage. Since my only data source was what the camera saw, and not even where the camera was pointing, I first had to figure out what the camera was looking at. Through some computer vision techniques and object detection networks, I was able to detect people on the ice and obtain their location to within about 14 inches. From there, I designed and tested two neural networks to predict shot events.