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Football Player Identity Annotation

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on annotating football player identities from match videos, ensuring accurate identification through various methods. You will work remotely, contributing to a project that relies on your attention to detail and football knowledge.

Qualifications

  • Prior experience in data annotation, video analysis or football data/analytics.
  • Football knowledge to recognize players from appearance and playing style.
  • Attention to detail for accurate focus on low-quality images.
  • Computer skills for using keyboard shortcuts and organizing files.
  • Preferred: Good English reading level to follow project guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Watch player tracks from match videos and identify players by team and jersey number.
  • Identify players using physical characteristics and positioning on the pitch when numbers are not visible.
  • Review system suggestions, correct inaccuracies, and commit the correct identities.
  • Run QA reviews of video clips to confirm player identity consistency.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Detail Oriented
  • Computer Literacy

About the company

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Best and Less Travel

  • Travel, Tourism & Airlines
  • 11–50
Delivering seamless travel experiences for last 22 years, Best and Less Travel is a home grow travel agency located across Sydney and Melbourne. Best and Less Travel has been trusted choice of its customers, and preferred partner of all leading airlines.

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Job description

We are hiring- Football player identity annotation specialist

Job Responsibilities:

  • Watches player "tracks" (short image sequences) from a match video and decides which player each track

belongs to: team and jersey number.

  • Identifies players even when the number is not visible, using build, hair, boots, sleeves, movement and

position on the pitch.

  • Reviews suggestions from the system, corrects wrong ones and commits the correct identity.
  • Runs a QA review of short video clips to confirm two tracks are the same player.
  • Records working time accurately (annotation and QA separately).

Working conditions:

  • Full time job with flexible hours (shifts are available 24/7)
  • Fully remote
  • Egypt Based role

Requirements

  • Prior experience in data annotation, video analysis or football data/analytics.
  • Football knowledge Follows football regularly and can recognize players from appearance and playing style, not only the number.
  • Attention to detail Able to focus for long sessions on small, low-quality images without losing accuracy.
  • Computer skills Comfortable with keyboard shortcuts, installing desktop software and organizing large files.
  • Equipment Own Windows laptop or PC with enough storage (one match is about 10 GB).
  • Strong Internet, stable connection (20 Mbps or more) to download match videos quickly.
  • Availability Flexible hours, including nights, weekends and same-day assignments.
  • Good English reading level to follow the project guidelines.

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