Anton Stepanov

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2 Papers

3.3HCDec 7, 2020Code
AI-enabled Prediction of eSports Player Performance Using the Data from Heterogeneous Sensors

Anton Smerdov, Evgeny Burnaev, Andrey Somov et al.

The emerging progress of eSports lacks the tools for ensuring high-quality analytics and training in Pro and amateur eSports teams. We report on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled solution for predicting the eSports player in-game performance using exclusively the data from sensors. For this reason, we collected the physiological, environmental, and the game chair data from Pro and amateur players. The player performance is assessed from the game logs in a multiplayer game for each moment of time using a recurrent neural network. We have investigated that attention mechanism improves the generalization of the network and provides the straightforward feature importance as well. The best model achieves ROC AUC score 0.73. The prediction of the performance of particular player is realized although his data are not utilized in the training set. The proposed solution has a number of promising applications for Pro eSports teams and amateur players, such as a learning tool or a performance monitoring system.

9.3HCAug 18, 2019
Towards Understanding of eSports Athletes' Potentialities: The Sensing System for Data Collection and Analysis

Alexander Korotin, Nikita Khromov, Anton Stepanov et al.

eSports is a developing multidisciplinary research area. At present, there is a lack of relevant data collected from real eSports athletes and lack of platforms which could be used for the data collection and further analysis. In this paper, we present a sensing system for enabling the data collection from professional athletes. Also, we report on the case study about collecting and analyzing the gaze data from Monolith professional eSports team specializing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) discipline. We perform a comparative study on assessing the gaze of amateur players and professional athletes. The results of our work are vital for ensuring eSports data collection and the following analysis in the scope of scouting or assessing the eSports players and athletes.