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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,887 Views
23 Pages

Computer games play an increasingly important role in cultural heritage preservation. They keep tradition alive in the digital domain, reflect public perception about historical events, and make history, and even legends, vivid, through means such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,441 Views
30 Pages

Automated Pre-Play Analysis of American Football Formations Using Deep Learning

  • Jacob Newman,
  • Andrew Sumsion,
  • Shad Torrie and
  • Dah-Jye Lee

Annotation and analysis of sports videos is a time-consuming task that, once automated, will provide benefits to coaches, players, and spectators. American football, as the most watched sport in the United States, could especially benefit from this a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,682 Views
12 Pages

Automated Classification of Changes of Direction in Soccer Using Inertial Measurement Units

  • Brian Reilly,
  • Oliver Morgan,
  • Gabriela Czanner and
  • Mark A. Robinson

6 July 2021

Changes of direction (COD) are an important aspect of soccer match play. Understanding the physiological and biomechanical demands on players in games allows sports scientists to effectively train and rehabilitate soccer players. COD are conventional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,062 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2023

A haptic sensor coupled to a gamepad or headset is frequently used to enhance the sense of immersion for game players. However, providing haptic feedback for appropriate sound effects involves specialized audio engineering techniques to identify targ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,929 Views
29 Pages

A Review of Computer Vision Technology for Football Videos

  • Fucheng Zheng,
  • Duaa Zuhair Al-Hamid,
  • Peter Han Joo Chong,
  • Cheng Yang and
  • Xue Jun Li

28 April 2025

In the era of digital advancement, the integration of Deep Learning (DL) algorithms is revolutionizing performance monitoring in football. Due to restrictions on monitoring devices during games to prevent unfair advantages, coaches are tasked to anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,708 Views
17 Pages

Estimating Player Positions from Padel High-Angle Videos: Accuracy Comparison of Recent Computer Vision Methods

  • Mohammadreza Javadiha,
  • Carlos Andujar,
  • Enrique Lacasa,
  • Angel Ric and
  • Antonio Susin

12 May 2021

The estimation of player positions is key for performance analysis in sport. In this paper, we focus on image-based, single-angle, player position estimation in padel. Unlike tennis, the primary camera view in professional padel videos follows a de f...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,893 Views
3 Pages

We introduce a hybrid approach that can track an individual football player in a video sequence. This solution achieves a good balance between speed and accuracy, combining traditional object tracking techniques with Deep Neural Networks (DNN). While...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,929 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Dataset for Multi-View Multi-Player Tracking in Soccer Scenarios

  • Xubo Fu,
  • Wenbin Huang,
  • Yaoran Sun,
  • Xinhua Zhu,
  • Julian Evans,
  • Xian Song,
  • Tongyu Geng and
  • Sailing He

25 April 2023

Localization and tracking in multi-player sports present significant challenges, particularly in wide and crowded scenes where severe occlusions can occur. Traditional solutions relying on a single camera are limited in their ability to accurately id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,302 Views
14 Pages

A Super-Bagging Method for Volleyball Action Recognition Using Wearable Sensors

  • Fasih Haider,
  • Fahim A. Salim,
  • Dees B.W. Postma,
  • Robby van Delden,
  • Dennis Reidsma,
  • Bert-Jan van Beijnum and
  • Saturnino Luz

Access to performance data during matches and training sessions is important for coaches and players. Although there are many video tagging systems available which can provide such access, these systems require manual effort. Data from Inertial Measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,438 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2022

In this study, we investigated the relationships between training load, perceived wellness and match performance in professional volleyball by applying the machine learning techniques XGBoost, random forest regression and subgroup discovery. Physical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,437 Views
35 Pages

Serious games are an important tool for education and training that offers interactive and powerful experience. However, a significant challenge lays with adapting a game to meet the specific needs of each player in real-time. The present paper intro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,123 Views
17 Pages

Multimodal Shot Prediction Based on Spatial-Temporal Interaction between Players in Soccer Videos

  • Ryota Goka,
  • Yuya Moroto,
  • Keisuke Maeda,
  • Takahiro Ogawa and
  • Miki Haseyama

3 June 2024

Sports data analysis has significantly advanced and become an indispensable technology for planning strategy and enhancing competitiveness. In soccer, shot prediction has been realized on the basis of historical match situations, and its results cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,176 Views
18 Pages

Identification and Distribution of Sterols, Bile Acids, and Acylcarnitines by LC–MS/MS in Humans, Mice, and Pigs—A Qualitative Analysis

  • Ambrin Farizah Babu,
  • Ville Mikael Koistinen,
  • Soile Turunen,
  • Gloria Solano-Aguilar,
  • Joseph F. Urban,
  • Iman Zarei and
  • Kati Hanhineva

7 January 2022

Sterols, bile acids, and acylcarnitines are key players in human metabolism. Precise annotations of these metabolites with mass spectrometry analytics are challenging because of the presence of several isomers and stereoisomers, variability in ioniza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,506 Views
25 Pages

2 July 2021

In sport science, athlete tracking and motion analysis are essential for monitoring and optimizing training programs, with the goal of increasing success in competition and preventing injury. At present, contact-free, camera-based, multi-athlete dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,965 Views
14 Pages

Object and Event Detection Pipeline for Rink Hockey Games

  • Jorge Miguel Lopes,
  • Luis Paulo Mota,
  • Samuel Marques Mota,
  • José Manuel Torres,
  • Rui Silva Moreira,
  • Christophe Soares,
  • Ivo Pereira,
  • Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia and
  • Pedro Sobral

All types of sports are potential application scenarios for automatic and real-time visual object and event detection. In rink hockey, the popular roller skate variant of team hockey, it is of great interest to automatically track player movements, p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,415 Views
14 Pages

Informative Regions In Viral Genomes

  • Jaime Leonardo Moreno-Gallego and
  • Alejandro Reyes

18 June 2021

Viruses, far from being just parasites affecting hosts’ fitness, are major players in any microbial ecosystem. In spite of their broad abundance, viruses, in particular bacteriophages, remain largely unknown since only about 20% of sequences obtained...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,808 Views
21 Pages

17 July 2025

With the rapid development of sports analytics and artificial intelligence, accurate human pose estimation in badminton is becoming increasingly important. However, challenges such as the lack of domain-specific datasets and the complexity of athlete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,420 Views
18 Pages

MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging Highlights Specific Metabolome and Lipidome Profiles in Salivary Gland Tumor Tissues

  • Eduardo Sommella,
  • Emanuela Salviati,
  • Vicky Caponigro,
  • Manuela Grimaldi,
  • Simona Musella,
  • Alessia Bertamino,
  • Luigi Cacace,
  • Remo Palladino,
  • Giuseppe Di Mauro and
  • Pietro Campiglia
  • + 2 authors

Salivary gland tumors are relatively uncommon neoplasms that represent less than 5% of head and neck tumors, and about 90% are in the parotid gland. The wide variety of histologies and tumor characteristics makes diagnosis and treatment challenging....

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
13,395 Views
22 Pages

27 December 2019

Ascomycete Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is one of the most damaging soilborne fungal pathogens affecting hundreds of plant hosts, including many economically important crops. Its genomic sequence has been available for less than a decade,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,709 Views
28 Pages

31 December 2022

Recent advances in sensor technologies, in particular video-based human detection, object tracking and pose estimation, have opened new possibilities for the automatic or semi-automatic per-frame annotation of sport videos. In the case of racket spor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,371 Views
16 Pages

18 October 2024

The process of manually annotating sports footage is a demanding one. In American football alone, coaches spend thousands of hours reviewing and analyzing videos each season. We aim to automate this process by developing a system that generates compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,847 Views
18 Pages

Cell Wall Proteome of Wheat Grain Endosperm and Outer Layers at Two Key Stages of Early Development

  • Cherkaoui Mehdi,
  • Lollier Virginie,
  • Geairon Audrey,
  • Bouder Axelle,
  • Larré Colette,
  • Rogniaux Hélène,
  • Jamet Elisabeth,
  • Guillon Fabienne and
  • Francin-Allami Mathilde

29 December 2019

The cell wall is an important compartment in grain cells that fulfills both structural and functional roles. It has a dynamic structure that is constantly modified during development and in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. Non-structural cell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,346 Views
18 Pages

Table Tennis Tutor: Forehand Strokes Classification Based on Multimodal Data and Neural Networks

  • Khaleel Asyraaf Mat Sanusi,
  • Daniele Di Mitri,
  • Bibeg Limbu and
  • Roland Klemke

30 April 2021

Beginner table-tennis players require constant real-time feedback while learning the fundamental techniques. However, due to various constraints such as the mentor’s inability to be around all the time, expensive sensors and equipment for sports trai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,684 Views
11 Pages

12 February 2018

When we develop voice-activated human-appliance interface systems in smart homes, named entity recognition (NER) is an essential tool for extracting execution targets from natural language commands. Previous studies on NER systems generally include s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,038 Views
24 Pages

Aglianico Grape Seed Semi-Polar Extract Exerts Anticancer Effects by Modulating MDM2 Expression and Metabolic Pathways

  • Rossana Cuciniello,
  • Francesco Di Meo,
  • Maria Sulli,
  • Olivia Costantina Demurtas,
  • Mirella Tanori,
  • Mariateresa Mancuso,
  • Clizia Villano,
  • Riccardo Aversano,
  • Domenico Carputo and
  • Stefania Crispi
  • + 3 authors

4 January 2023

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) seeds are rich in polyphenols including proanthocyanidins, molecules with a variety of biological effects including anticancer action. We have previously reported that the grape seed semi-polar extract of Aglianico culti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,221 Views
18 Pages

Nitrate Regulates Maize Root Transcriptome through Nitric Oxide Dependent and Independent Mechanisms

  • Laura Ravazzolo,
  • Sara Trevisan,
  • Silvia Iori,
  • Cristian Forestan,
  • Mario Malagoli and
  • Silvia Quaggiotti

2 September 2021

Maize root responds to nitrate by modulating its development through the coordinated action of many interacting players. Nitric oxide is produced in primary root early after the nitrate provision, thus inducing root elongation. In this study, RNA seq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,998 Views
20 Pages

Identifying Common Genetic Etiologies Between Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Related Immune-Mediated Diseases

  • Xianqiang Liu,
  • Dingchang Li,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Hao Liu,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Yingjie Zhao,
  • Piero Ruscitti,
  • Wen Zhao and
  • Guanglong Dong

Background: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of developing immune-mediated diseases. However, the genetic basis of IBD is complex, and an integrated approach should be used to elucidate the complex genetic relatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,794 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Microbial Community Heterogeneity and Carbon Fixation Capabilities in Oil-Contaminated Soils in Chinese Onshore Oilfields

  • Jiayu Song,
  • Yakui Chen,
  • Yilei Han,
  • Yunzhao Li,
  • Zheng Liu,
  • Xingchun Li,
  • Diannan Lu and
  • Chunmao Chen

This study selected 27 soil samples from four representative horizontally distributed onshore oilfields in China to explore the diversity of soil microbial communities and their carbon fixation capacity, with a focus on the potential interaction betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,306 Views
21 Pages

5 July 2025

The heavy metal-associated (HMA) domain-harboring proteins constitute critical players involved in the transport of various metal ions in plants, and are associated with development and stress responses. Herein, a total of 243 TaHMA genes were identi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,765 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2023

Calcium is a major signalling bivalent cation within the cell. Compartmentalization is essential for regulation of calcium mediated processes. A number of players contribute to intracellular handling of calcium, among them are the sarco/endoplasmic r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,056 Views
40 Pages

BAG3 Proteomic Signature under Proteostasis Stress

  • Christof Hiebel,
  • Elisabeth Stürner,
  • Meike Hoffmeister,
  • Georg Tascher,
  • Mario Schwarz,
  • Heike Nagel,
  • Christian Behrends,
  • Christian Münch and
  • Christian Behl

4 November 2020

The multifunctional HSP70 co-chaperone BAG3 (BCL-2-associated athanogene 3) represents a key player in the quality control of the cellular proteostasis network. In response to stress, BAG3 specifically targets aggregation-prone proteins to the perinu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,737 Views
13 Pages

Chinese Named Entity Recognition in Football Based on ALBERT-BiLSTM Model

  • Qi An,
  • Bingyu Pan,
  • Zhitong Liu,
  • Shutong Du and
  • Yixiong Cui

28 September 2023

Football is one of the most popular sports in the world, arousing a wide range of research topics related to its off- and on-the-pitch performance. The extraction of football entities from football news helps to construct sports frameworks, integrate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,519 Views
18 Pages

Quercetin–Resveratrol Combination for Prostate Cancer Management in TRAMP Mice

  • Chandra K. Singh,
  • Gagan Chhabra,
  • Mary A. Ndiaye,
  • Imtiaz A. Siddiqui,
  • Jennifer E. Panackal,
  • Charlotte A. Mintie and
  • Nihal Ahmad

2 August 2020

Prostate Cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality in men. Therefore, novel mechanistically-driven approaches are needed for PCa management. Here, we determined the effects of grape antioxidants quercetin and/or resver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,920 Views
18 Pages

FuncPEP: A Database of Functional Peptides Encoded by Non-Coding RNAs

  • Mihnea P. Dragomir,
  • Ganiraju C. Manyam,
  • Leonie Florence Ott,
  • Léa Berland,
  • Erik Knutsen,
  • Cristina Ivan,
  • Leonard Lipovich,
  • Bradley M. Broom and
  • George A. Calin

23 September 2020

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are essential players in many cellular processes, from normal development to oncogenic transformation. Initially, ncRNAs were defined as transcripts that lacked an open reading frame (ORF). However, multiple lines of evidence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,932 Views
23 Pages

Ancient Bacterial Class Alphaproteobacteria Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases Can Be Found in Other Bacterial Species

  • Nomfundo Nzuza,
  • Tiara Padayachee,
  • Puleng Rosinah Syed,
  • Justyna Dorota Kryś,
  • Wanping Chen,
  • Dominik Gront,
  • David R. Nelson and
  • Khajamohiddin Syed

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs/P450s), heme-thiolate proteins, are well-known players in the generation of chemicals valuable to humans and as a drug target against pathogens. Understanding the evolution of P450s in a bacterial population is ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,335 Views
21 Pages

Genome-Resolved Meta-Analysis of the Microbiome in Oil Reservoirs Worldwide

  • Kelly J. Hidalgo,
  • Isabel N. Sierra-Garcia,
  • German Zafra and
  • Valéria M. de Oliveira

Microorganisms inhabiting subsurface petroleum reservoirs are key players in biochemical transformations. The interactions of microbial communities in these environments are highly complex and still poorly understood. This work aimed to assess public...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,307 Views
25 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification, Structure Characterization, and Expression Profiling of Dof Transcription Factor Gene Family in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

  • Zhengwu Fang,
  • Wenqiang Jiang,
  • Yiqin He,
  • Dongfang Ma,
  • Yike Liu,
  • Shuping Wang,
  • Yingxin Zhang and
  • Junliang Yin

19 February 2020

DNA binding with one finger (Dof) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors with crucial roles in plant growth and stress response. Even so, little is known about them in wheat. In this study, 108 wheat Dof (TaDof) genes across 21 chromosomes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,400 Views
19 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of HSF Transcription Factors in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) under Abiotic Stress

  • Jin Ma,
  • Guozhe Zhang,
  • Yacheng Ye,
  • Linxue Shang,
  • Sidan Hong,
  • Qingqing Ma,
  • Yu Zhao and
  • Cuihua Gu

19 October 2022

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is one of the most important legume forage species in the world. It is often affected by several abiotic stressors that result in reduced yields and poor growth. Therefore, it is crucial to study the resistance of M. sativa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,802 Views
17 Pages

Transcriptomic Analysis of Melatonin-Mediated Salt Stress Response in Germinating Alfalfa

  • Zirui Liu,
  • Xiangling Ren,
  • Wenxuan Zhu,
  • Yingao Li,
  • Guomin Li,
  • Caifeng Liu,
  • Defeng Li,
  • Yinghua Shi,
  • Chengzhang Wang and
  • Hao Sun
  • + 1 author

Salt stress poses a significant threat to crop yields worldwide. Melatonin (MT), an endogenous hormone synthesized in plants, has emerged as a crucial player in plant responses to various abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, heat, and cold....

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,716 Views
20 Pages

Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Extensive Changes in LncRNAs during Skeletal Muscle Development in Hu Sheep

  • Caifang Ren,
  • Mingtian Deng,
  • Yixuan Fan,
  • Hua Yang,
  • Guomin Zhang,
  • Xu Feng,
  • Fengzhe Li,
  • Dan Wang,
  • Feng Wang and
  • Yanli Zhang

1 August 2017

As an important type of noncoding RNA molecules, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) act as versatile players in various biological processes. However, little is known about lncRNA regulators during sheep muscle growth. To explore functional lncRNAs durin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,111 Views
19 Pages

15 December 2024

Mammalian fertilization is a complex and highly regulated process that has garnered significant attention, particularly with advancements in assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). The fusion of egg and sperm involves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,468 Views
13 Pages

Characterization and Comparative Genomic Analysis of a Deep-Sea Bacillus Phage Reveal a Novel Genus

  • Yuan Chen,
  • Tianyou Zhang,
  • Qiliang Lai,
  • Menghui Zhang,
  • Meishun Yu,
  • Runying Zeng and
  • Min Jin

13 September 2023

As the most abundant biological entities, viruses are the major players in marine ecosystems. However, our knowledge on virus diversity and virus–host interactions in the deep sea remains very limited. In this study, vB_BteM-A9Y, a novel bacter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,122 Views
18 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Lie Detector Applied to a Novel Annotated Game Dataset

  • Nuria Rodriguez-Diaz,
  • Decky Aspandi,
  • Federico M. Sukno and
  • Xavier Binefa

21 December 2021

Lie detection is considered a concern for everyone in their day-to-day life, given its impact on human interactions. Thus, people normally pay attention to both what their interlocutors are saying and to their visual appearance, including the face, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,701 Views
17 Pages

Peculiar k-mer Spectra Are Correlated with 3D Contact Frequencies and Breakpoint Regions in the Human Genome

  • Wisam Mohammed Hikmat,
  • Aaron Sievers,
  • Michael Hausmann and
  • Georg Hildenbrand

25 September 2024

Background: It is widely accepted that the 3D chromatin organization in human cell nuclei is not random and recent investigations point towards an interactive relation of epigenetic functioning and chromatin (re-)organization. Although chromatin orga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,698 Views
15 Pages

Transcriptomic Time-Course Sequencing: Insights into the Cell Wall Macromolecule-Mediated Fruit Dehiscence during Ripening in Camellia oleifera

  • Yu Sheng,
  • Xiaohua Yao,
  • Linxiu Liu,
  • Chunlian Yu,
  • Kunxi Wang,
  • Kailiang Wang,
  • Jun Chang,
  • Juanjuan Chen and
  • Yongqing Cao

20 September 2023

Camellia oleifera (C. oleifera), one of the world’s four major edible woody oil crops, has been widely planted in southern China’s subtropical region for the extremely high nutritional and health benefits of its seed oil. Timing and synch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,187 Views
16 Pages

A Metabolomic Approach and Traditional Physical Assessments to Compare U22 Soccer Players According to Their Competitive Level

  • João Pedro da Cruz,
  • Fábio Neves dos Santos,
  • Felipe Marroni Rasteiro,
  • Anita Brum Marostegan,
  • Fúlvia Barros Manchado-Gobatto and
  • Claudio Alexandre Gobatto

25 July 2022

The purpose of this study was to use traditional physical assessments combined with a metabolomic approach to compare the anthropometric, physical fitness level, and serum fasting metabolic profile among U22 soccer players at different competitive le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,527 Views
20 Pages

Background/Objectives: Breast cancer continues to be a major global health challenge, driving the urgent need for innovative therapeutic strategies. This study evaluates the anticancer and immunomodulatory potential of skimmianine in breast cancer th...