🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.
FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.
Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.
An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.
And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.
Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!
Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?
Deberían mostrar en público el software para que cualquiera pueda auditar que la @FIFAcom no está haciendo trampa. 1 millón de humanos no ven que el croata la toque pero ellos ¿tienen? un sensor que si y te dan vuelta un resultado. Abran el software.
Dopóki nie zobaczę płynnego ujęcia, na którym wykres z chipa pokaże dwa oddzielne dotknięcia: jedno Igora Matanovicia i drugie Renato Veigi - nie uwierzę
@madrid_total2 Una gráfica de un 1' no demuestra que la tecnología funcione. Es más, si tan buena es por qué no mostrar la gráfica en vivo? Con transparencia? Ah, no, que no interesa. Por qué no mostraron el avance de la jugada y como el chip se vuelve a activar con el toque del defensa?
Only a low IQ non-technical person thinks that a wireless sensor inside a ball with a shitty polling rate that is kicked around for hours is precise enough within low millisecond range to register a string of hair on the ball’s surface, yet magically immune to the pressure wave of someone missing it by 2mm and do all of this over the air in real time across hundreds of meters.
It's an accelerometer. It picks up vibrations and pressure changes from EVERYTHING nearby, even it hitting an insect in the air, then FIFA decides which spike counts as a ‘touch’.
Si yo fuera Florentino, esto haría este verano:
1. BAJAS: Alaba, Mendy, Rüdiger, Ceballos, Carvajal.
2. VENTAS: Si vienen con dinero: Valverde, Camavinga y Vini Jr. (creo que Mbappé necesita que un Klopp lo ponga en su sitio, pero aporta muchos goles).
3. RECUPERAR CEDIDOS: Vuelta de Nico Paz, Chema Andrés y Endrick.
4. CEDERIA: Mastantuono, Palacios, Gonzalo y quizás Thiago Pitarch (sino fichamos un medio de nivel).