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Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently shown strong potential in soccer video understanding. However, given the high complexity of soccer videos due to large viewpoint variations, rapid shot transitions, and cluttered scenes, it…

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Human-centric Point Cloud Video Understanding (PVU) is an emerging field focused on extracting and interpreting human-related features from sequences of human point clouds, further advancing downstream human-centric tasks and applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yiteng Xu , Kecheng Ye , Xiao Han , Yiming Ren , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Tracking and identifying players is an important problem in computer vision based ice hockey analytics. Player tracking is a challenging problem since the motion of players in hockey is fast-paced and non-linear. There is also significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Kanav Vats , Mehrnaz Fani , David A. Clausi , John S. Zelek

In this letter, we propose a new method, Multi-Clue Gaze (MCGaze), to facilitate video gaze estimation via capturing spatial-temporal interaction context among head, face, and eye in an end-to-end learning way, which has not been well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yiran Guan , Zhuoguang Chen , Wenzheng Zeng , Zhiguo Cao , Yang Xiao

Image-based sports analytics enable automatic retrieval of key events in a game to speed up the analytics process for human experts. However, most existing methods focus on structured television broadcast video datasets with a straight and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Subhajit Chaudhury , Daiki Kimura , Phongtharin Vinayavekhin , Asim Munawar , Ryuki Tachibana , Koji Ito , Yuki Inaba , Minoru Matsumoto , Shuji Kidokoro , Hiroki Ozaki

Highlights in a sport video are usually referred as actions that stimulate excitement or attract attention of the audience. A big effort is spent in designing techniques which find automatically highlights, in order to automatize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Marco Godi , Paolo Rota , Francesco Setti

Scene change detection is an image processing problem related to partitioning pixels of a digital image into foreground and background regions. Mostly, visual knowledge-based computer intelligent systems, like traffic monitoring, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Daniel F. S. Santos , Rafael G. Pires , Danilo Colombo , João P. Papa

Computer-aided support and analysis are becoming increasingly important in the modern world of sports. The scouting of potential prospective players, performance as well as match analysis, and the monitoring of training programs rely more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Theiner , Wolfgang Gritz , Eric Müller-Budack , Robert Rein , Daniel Memmert , Ralph Ewerth

Pose estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, particularly when visual perception is occluded during gripper-object interactions. Existing tactile-based methods generally rely on tactile simulation or pre-trained models, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zirui Zhang , Boyang Zhang , Fumin Zhang , Huan Yin

Sport analysis is crucial for team performance since it provides actionable data that can inform coaching decisions, improve player performance, and enhance team strategies. To analyze more complex features from game footage, a computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Adrian Manchado , Tanner Cellio , Jonathan Keane , Yiyang Wang

We propose a novel object localization methodology with the purpose of boosting the localization accuracy of state-of-the-art object detection systems. Our model, given a search region, aims at returning the bounding box of an object of…

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Posture-based mental state inference has significant potential in diagnosing fatigue, preventing injury, and enhancing performance across various domains. Such tools must be research-validated with large datasets before being translated…

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Context reasoning is critical in a wide variety of applications where current inputs need to be interpreted in the light of previous experience and knowledge. Both spatial and temporal contextual information play a critical role in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Mengmi Zhang , Claire Tseng , Karla Montejo , Joseph Kwon , Gabriel Kreiman

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

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Place Recognition enables the estimation of a globally consistent map and trajectory by providing non-local constraints in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). This paper presents Locus, a novel place recognition method using 3D…

As the global population ages, the number of fall-related incidents is on the rise. Effective fall detection systems, specifically in healthcare sector, are crucial to mitigate the risks associated with such events. This study evaluates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Aleksander Nagaj , Zenjie Li , Dim P. Papadopoulos , Kamal Nasrollahi

The small objects in images and videos are usually not independent individuals. Instead, they more or less present some semantic and spatial layout relationships with each other. Modeling and inferring such intrinsic relationships can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Kui Fu , Jia Li , Lin Ma , Kai Mu , Yonghong Tian

Selecting a coherent sequence or subset of elements is a fundamental problem in structured prediction, arising in tasks such as detection, trajectory forecasting, and representative subset selection. In many such settings, the target is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Noam Mizrachi , Nadav Har-Tuv , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

We present a novel cross layer approach to random access (RA) that combines physical-layer network coding (PLNC) with multiuser detection (MUD). PLNC and MUD are applied jointly at the physical level in order to extract any linear…

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In this work, we propose a novel way of efficiently localizing a soccer field from a single broadcast image of the game. Related work in this area relies on manually annotating a few key frames and extending the localization to similar…

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