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Tough one! Just down from the Falls of Foyers, looking due north to Loch Ness.

So that's on Kessock Road, on the way to the ferry. And these two boats are in the Google Streetview image from September 2015. You're possibly at the light at the mouth of the river, but without knowing how much of the foreground you have cut out, it's difficult to say. The house on the hill was Scorguie House and Lodge - yours for £910,000

Maybe Caley Stadium isn't quite the correct line. Kessock Ferry? Or, since you appear to be on much the same level as the house, the north end of the bridge?

Because contracts And maybe no infrastructure to support Caley Jags TV live streaming.

It's OK, I have got it. My first hunch was quite close - used to go, many years ago, to a farm shop not far from there. I see it's for sale for an awful lot of money. Have you had any interest? As to where you were, I'm not sure where you'd have to be to have a clear view. Maybe near the sea end of the Muirtown Basin? Oh wait... how long is your lens? You were in the main stand at Caledonian Stadium?

Just checking that this is in the correct thread?

I can't imagine that there is much that the club themselves will be able to do to refine the system. It's an AI-based system supplied by a company which is not under their control. But I'd hope that someone takes note of the comments here, and feeds them back to the SPFL and the system provider. I know very little about machine learning, but I suspect that it could take some time to actually improve the system - to get it to learn better behaviour. As for the position of the cameras, I suspect that they need a short cable path from the camera rig to an on-site computer which will be in the main stand to maximise its protection. Having said that, the TV companies manage somehow.... As an exile, I agree with tm4tj. If it wasn't for this system, I wouldn't be seeing anything at all, so I won't complain and I will be back. Just praying for dull weather on match days!

I am also so last century But "linesman" is shorter... You know these matches where the ref leads everyone out of the tunnel and takes the ball off a plinth? We could set up something similar with hairpieces for follically-challenged officials.

Well, they were. The camera wasn't moving. In case there are any other techies here, I worked out a few things about the system. The Pixellot website - https://www.pixellot.tv/ - mentions a "multi-camera fixed rig system" in the centre of the ground, stitching together a panoramic picture of the pitch. The ICT system used four cameras. Two were looking across to midway inside each half. The straight line across the ground and into the sky was where the images from these two cameras were stitched together by the system. That's why there were differences in colour and sharpness there - two different cameras. Would have thought that the system should be able to compensate better for that. There were two other cameras, one covering each end. The sloping lines where their images were stitched to the central camera images were quite clear, once I knew what to look for, and especially after the sun had gone. So four cameras in all, but no camera was actually moving. The system was stitching together the four camera feeds into one big picture of the ground. It was then deciding which part of that picture to show to us, and whether to zoom in or out - just like you or me deciding which part of a very large screen to look at. Clearly, it was mistaking the linesman's head for the ball, which made me wonder how the AI had learned to follow a game. It suggests that the great majority of the people in the games that it has "watched" have had plenty of hair. Made me wonder about that other common flaw in machine learning, namely using only white people whilst it is learning. Probably not such a problem here, because it is watching people moving, and not, for example, trying to do facial recognition. Clearly very far from perfect - but interesting for a (former) nerd like me.

Don't think there will be anything they can do, since contracts will have been signed. They may not even have the option of lowering the price. Just going to have to learn to live with it, and hope that the AI is smart enough to learn about the Scottish game!

Thought it was the linesman?

I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.

The two orange patches on the far side and the straight-edged band across the middle don't move when the camera moves. So they are not real-time lens effects. Suggests to me that the computer has decided that they are actually there, and that it's damn well going to show them!

He's on mute here

Dear AI, here is a basic rule for you. Keep the ball on screen, well away from the edges, at all times.

I thought he said Bannerman! https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/702335/bt-sport-young-presenter-of-the-year-finalists-revealed/

In now. Camera in the main stand! Hope they have tested it with low sun.

That's Robbo's new match-winning formation

It's 40 minutes to kick-off in a home game. Maybe try phoning the stadium?

That was one that I didn't have to search for - just used Google Streetview to confirm my first thoughts. I used to live up Culduthel Road, so often used to head out on the roads up to Ashie and Duntelchaig, by bike or by car. That view hasn't changed, but I was just looking at the MacBean Memorial Park on Streetview, and hardly recognised it. All those trees! It was bare, open countryside when I used to go there.

That looks cold! Lovely picture, though. Better than the wee yellow man's...

You lost me there. And it's only four, anyway. I'm going to regret saying this, amn't I?

That is indeed Mallaig. I've never been there, and eventually worked it by figuring out that other pictures on the same roll of film were of Fort William, and then looking to see what places had both large CalMac ferries and a moored lifeboat.

Another place I've never been to, and Dad hadn't labelled it. Took me longer to work it out than yours usually takes! Here's the next two on the roll, which I thought would be giveaways.

One of my Dad's, from 2000, I think.