Hawk-Eye proposes goal-spotting technology to FIFA following controversial World Cup calls

According to The Register, Paul Hawkins, the inventor of Hawk-Eye ball spotting technology, has written to football's governing body FIFA proposing that Hawk Eye be deployed in future soccer matches. According to Hawkins, the technology could also assist referees in detecting offsides, and could report the results to referees within half a second. The system, which uses multiple video cameras, ball detection, false-alarm rejection methods, and triangulation, has already been used in tennis, cricket, and snooker.

Hawk-Eye used in a tennis match: