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Minori Sugimura

I design systems for football that integrate data, video, and language to improve shared understanding and decision-making. I move back and forth between research and practical implementation to build next-generation infrastructure for Tech × Football.

Vision

What I aim to build

In youth football, post-match reflection often stays abstract and key learnings are not shared effectively. I work on this problem by combining video, data, and language models to increase the resolution of tactical understanding.

In the long run, I aim to build a football foundation model that connects personalized feedback, team play models, and match-level understanding into one continuous system.

Now

Current positions

  • From Apr 2026: University of Tsukuba, Information Science Studying across theory and implementation in computer science.
  • From Apr 2026: AllClip, ML Engineer (Part-time) Working on machine learning for football video understanding.
  • From Apr 2025: Information Science Talents Program Continuing research on spatial QA with VLMs.
Projects

Selected work

  • TacticaNote (MITOU Junior 2024 selected) Built AI-based individual feedback, interfaces connecting team play model and player-level tasks, plus video linking, summarization, and Bird's Eye View generation.
  • Football Video Analysis System (2022-2023) Extracted player/ball coordinates from match video and classified scenes with GSR + rule-based pipeline.
  • VLM Spatial QA Research Fine-tuned on 200 clips / 465 QA from SoccerNet-derived data. Accuracy improved 37.2% -> 56.8% -> 61.0%.
  • Pass Sonar Counter Built a web tool to create and export pass-sonar visualizations while watching matches.
Awards & Activity

Awards and initiatives

  • Web×IoT Makers Challenge 18/19 in Tottori, Grand Prize (LIFE BOX)
  • Web×IoT Makers Challenge 2019-20 in Tottori (Senior support device project)
  • WebIoT Makers Challenge PLUS, Special Prize ("What shall we cook today?")
  • CPAR (Tottori Programming Contest), Special Prize
  • Information Science Talents Program, 6th cohort selected
  • Harvard CS50 Certificate
  • Co-founded IGNEST and ran crowdfunding (target JPY 500,000 / final JPY 570,000)
Books

Reading List

Books that shape my thinking across research, engineering, and football analysis.

Currently Reading

  • データ思考アプリケーションデザイン
  • 情熱プログラマー (The Passionate Programmer)

Finished

  • Pythonで始める機械学習 (Introduction to Machine Learning with Python)
  • 林稜平のサッカー観戦術
  • A Philosophy of Software Design
  • ミケル・アルテタ アーセナルの革新と挑戦
  • ご冗談でしょう、ファインマンさん (Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!)

Want to Read

  • 反実仮想機械学習
  • Vision Transformer入門

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