A camera called a shiny bald head the ball. 98% sure. Physics overruled it and kept the real ball.
It really happened. October 2020, an automated camera followed a linesman's bald head for a whole match (Inverness Caledonian Thistle, 2020).
A detector only sees one frame at a time. Under floodlights a bald head shines like a ball, scores higher, and the camera chases it.
Plumbline sits after your detector and asks one thing: could a real ball actually be there, moving like that, at that size? A head standing still at head height can't be, so it gets rejected no matter how confident the box.
In the reel: same footage, two trackers. The old one swings to the head. Ours holds the ball, on real match footage, not just a clean simulation. Every call carries its reason on file.
Physics overrules pixels. 🎥
Send this to the engineer who still trusts the highest-confidence box.
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Published on Instagram · September 4, 2026
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