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Comprehensive understanding of key players and actions in multiplayer sports broadcast videos is a challenging problem. Unlike in news or finance videos, sports videos have limited text. While both action recognition for multiplayer sports…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Avijit Shah , Topojoy Biswas , Sathish Ramadoss , Deven Santosh Shah

This paper proposes Omni Dense Captioning, a novel task designed to generate continuous, fine-grained, and structured audio-visual narratives with explicit timestamps. To ensure dense semantic coverage, we introduce a six-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Linli Yao , Yuancheng Wei , Yaojie Zhang , Lei Li , Xinlong Chen , Feifan Song , Ziyue Wang , Kun Ouyang , Yuanxin Liu , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Yuanxing Zhang , Xu Sun

With the increasingly detailed investigation of game play and tactics in invasive team sports such as soccer, it becomes ever more important to present causes, actions and findings in a meaningful manner. Visualizations, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Maximilian T. Fischer , Daniel A. Keim , Manuel Stein

It has been known to be difficult to generate adequate sports updates from a sequence of vast amounts of diverse live tweets, although the live sports viewing experience with tweets is gaining the popularity. In this paper, we focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Masashi Oshika , Kosuke Yamada , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

In soccer video analysis, player detection is essential for identifying key events and reconstructing tactical positions. The presence of numerous players and frequent occlusions, combined with copyright restrictions, severely restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Haobin Qin , Calvin Yeung , Rikuhei Umemoto , Keisuke Fujii

Sports video analysis is a key domain in computer vision, enabling detailed spatial understanding through multi-view correspondences. In this work, we introduce SoccerNet-v3D and ISSIA-3D, two enhanced and scalable datasets designed for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Marc Gutiérrez-Pérez , Antonio Agudo

It is challenging to get access to datasets related to the physical performance of soccer players. The teams consider such information highly confidential, especially if it covers in-game performance.Hence, most of the analysis and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Laszlo Gyarmati , Mohamed Hefeeda

We modeled the dynamics of a soccer match based on a network representation where players are nodes discretely clustered into homogeneous groups. Players were grouped by physical proximity, supported by the intuitive notion that competing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Luis Ramada Pereira , Rui J. Lopes , Jorge Louçã , Duarte Araújo , João Ramos

Video storytelling is essential for sports performance analysis and fan engagement, enabling sports professionals and fans to effectively communicate and interpret the spatial and temporal dynamics of gameplay. Traditional methods rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tica Lin , Ruxun Xiang , Gardenia Liu , Divyanshu Tiwari , Meng-Chia Chiang , Chenjiayi Ye , Hanspeter Pfister , Chen Zhu-Tian

Existing benchmarks for evaluating long video understanding falls short on two critical aspects, either lacking in scale or quality of annotations. These limitations arise from the difficulty in collecting dense annotations for long videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Aniket Agarwal , Alex Zhang , Karthik Narasimhan , Igor Gilitschenski , Vishvak Murahari , Yash Kant

Penalties are fraught and game-changing moments in soccer games that teams explicitly prepare for. Consequently, there has been substantial interest in analyzing them in order to provide advice to practitioners. From a data science…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lotte Bransen , Tim Janssen , Jesse Davis

Recent advances in 3D human motion and language integration have primarily focused on text-to-motion generation, leaving the task of motion understanding relatively unexplored. We introduce Dense Motion Captioning, a novel task that aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiyao Xu , Benedetta Liberatori , Gül Varol , Paolo Rota

Automatically describing videos has ever been fascinating. In this work, we attempt to describe videos from a specific domain - broadcast videos of lawn tennis matches. Given a video shot from a tennis match, we intend to generate a textual…

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This paper proposes a method for generating bullet comments for live-streaming games based on highlights (i.e., the exciting parts of video clips) extracted from the game content and evaluate the effect of mental health promotion. Game live…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Junjie H. Xu , Yulin Cai , Zhou Fang , Pujana Paliyawan

The research and data science community has been fascinated with the development of automatic systems for the detection of key events in a video. Special attention in this field is given to sports video analytics which could help in…

In the era of digitalization, social media has become an integral part of our lives, serving as a significant hub for individuals and businesses to share information, communicate, and engage. This is also the case for professional sports,…

Contextual reasoning is essential to understand events in long untrimmed videos. In this work, we systematically explore different captioning models with various contexts for the dense-captioning events in video task, which aims to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Shizhe Chen , Yuqing Song , Yida Zhao , Qin Jin , Zhaoyang Zeng , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Alexander Hauptmann

Traditional video-based tasks like soccer action spotting rely heavily on visual inputs, often requiring complex and computationally expensive models to process dense video data. We propose a shift from this video-centric approach to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ritabrata Chakraborty , Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Avijit Dasgupta , Sandeep Chaurasia

Ubiquitous sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have revolutionized the sports industry, providing new methodologies for planning, effective coordination of training, and match analysis post game. New methods, including machine…

Dense video captioning is a fine-grained video understanding task that involves two sub-problems: localizing distinct events in a long video stream, and generating captions for the localized events. We propose the Joint Event Detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Huijuan Xu , Boyang Li , Vasili Ramanishka , Leonid Sigal , Kate Saenko