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20162024
most citedEffective injury forecasting in soccer with GPS training data and machine learning

352 citations · 998 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.soc-ph2024★ 114 cited

Future Directions in Human Mobility Science

Luca Pappalardo, Ed Manley, Vedran Sekara +1

We provide a brief review of human mobility science and present three key areas where we expect to see substantial advancements. We start from the mind and discuss the need to bett…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 96 cited

Gross polluters and vehicles' emissions reduction

Matteo Böhm, Mirco Nanni, Luca Pappalardo

Vehicles' emissions produce a significant share of cities' air pollution, with a substantial impact on the environment and human health. Traditional emission estimation methods use…

cs.AI2021★ 3 cited

Coach2vec: autoencoding the playing style of soccer coaches

Paolo Cintia, Luca Pappalardo

Capturing the playing style of professional soccer coaches is a complex, and yet barely explored, task in sports analytics. Nowadays, the availability of digital data describing ev…

stat.AP2021★ 64 cited

Explaining the difference between men's and women's football

Luca Pappalardo, Alessio Rossi, Giuseppe Pontillo +2

Women's football is gaining supporters and practitioners worldwide, raising questions about what the differences are with men's football. While the two sports are often compared ba…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Deep Gravity: enhancing mobility flows generation with deep neural networks and geographic information

Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Massimiliano Luca +1

The movements of individuals within and among cities influence critical aspects of our society, such as well-being, the spreading of epidemics, and the quality of the environment.…

cs.CV2020

Automatic Pass Annotation from Soccer VideoStreams Based on Object Detection and LSTM

Danilo Sorano, Fabio Carrara, Paolo Cintia +2

Soccer analytics is attracting increasing interest in academia and industry, thanks to the availability of data that describe all the spatio-temporal events that occur in each matc…

stat.AP2018★ 159 cited

PlayeRank: data-driven performance evaluation and player ranking in soccer via a machine learning approach

Luca Pappalardo, Paolo Cintia, Paolo Ferragina +3

The problem of evaluating the performance of soccer players is attracting the interest of many companies and the scientific community, thanks to the availability of massive data ca…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 10 cited

Human Perception of Performance

Luca Pappalardo, Paolo Cintia, Dino Pedreschi +2

Humans are routinely asked to evaluate the performance of other individuals, separating success from failure and affecting outcomes from science to education and sports. Yet, in ma…

stat.ML2017★ 352 cited

Effective injury forecasting in soccer with GPS training data and machine learning

Alessio Rossi, Luca Pappalardo, Paolo Cintia +3

Injuries have a great impact on professional soccer, due to their large influence on team performance and the considerable costs of rehabilitation for players. Existing studies in…

stat.AP2017★ 65 cited

Quantifying the relation between performance and success in soccer

Luca Pappalardo, Paolo Cintia

The availability of massive data about sports activities offers nowadays the opportunity to quantify the relation between performance and success. In this study, we analyze more th…

cs.SI2016★ 132 cited

Data-driven generation of spatio-temporal routines in human mobility

Luca Pappalardo, Filippo Simini

The generation of realistic spatio-temporal trajectories of human mobility is of fundamental importance in a wide range of applications, such as the developing of protocols for mob…