What are the hand signals used by referees and assistant referees for offside?

This paper proposes a novel AI-driven image recognition system for automatically detecting offside and foul events in football matches. Offside is an essential rule in football, often the source of lively discussions around a television screen. Its goal ? Prevent attackers from unduly “camping” A player is considered in an offside position if any part of their head, body, or feet (excluding arms and hands) is in the opposition's half of the pitch. Apr 21, 2024 ... Offside is offside. It doesn't matter how you draw it up, whether daylight between attacker and defender or not, it is simply on or off. A possible explanation is that the human eye and brain are incapable of processing all the necessary visual information to apply the rule. Aug 23, 2022 ... While the rule is quite nuanced and well explained on the British Football Association's website, it stipulates that a player is in an offside ... Sep 5, 2024 ... Dutch look to scrap offside law to curb amateur football violence ... Netherlands football is considering doing away with the offside law in its ... May 6, 2024 ... Then, in 2005, the IFAB pointed out that an attacker will be offside only if a part of their body with which they can legally score (head, torso ... Nov 24, 2022 ... The point of the offside rule is to prevent attacking players from perpetually camping in front of the opponent's goal. This means that an ... Jan 13, 2025 ... Yet most of us who go to football regularly simply know offside as the last attacker being in front of the last defender. After a while, it ...