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Toward the goal of automatic production for sports broadcasts, a paramount task consists in understanding the high-level semantic information of the game in play. For instance, recognizing and localizing the main actions of the game would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

With the prevalence of video sharing, there are increasing demands for automatic video digestion such as highlight detection. Recently, platforms with crowdsourced time-sync video comments have emerged worldwide, providing a good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Qing Ping , Chaomei Chen

Modeling open-play soccer tactics is a formidable challenge due to the stochastic, multi-agent nature of the game. Existing computational approaches typically produce single, deterministic trajectory forecasts or focus on highly structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiayuan Rao , Tianlin Gui , Haoning Wu , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

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

In recent years, many different approaches have been proposed to quantify the performances of soccer players. Since player performances are challenging to quantify directly due to the low-scoring nature of soccer, most approaches estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jan Van Haaren

In a soccer game, the information provided by detecting and tracking brings crucial clues to further analyze and understand some tactical aspects of the game, including individual and team actions. State-of-the-art tracking algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Samuel Hurault , Coloma Ballester , Gloria Haro

Accurate prediction of FIFA World Cup match outcomes holds significant value for analysts, coaches, bettors, and fans. This paper presents a machine learning framework specifically designed to forecast match winners in FIFA World Cup. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ali Al-Bustami , Zaid Ghazal

Motion prediction in soccer involves capturing complex dynamics from player and ball interactions. We present FootBots, an encoder-decoder transformer-based architecture addressing motion prediction and conditioned motion prediction through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Guillem Capellera , Luis Ferraz , Antonio Rubio , Antonio Agudo , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

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…

The advent of artificial intelligence has propelled AI-Generated Game Commentary (AI-GGC) into a rapidly expanding field, offering benefits such as unlimited availability and personalized narration. However, current researches in this area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qirui Zheng , Xingbo Wang , Keyuan Cheng , Muhammad Asif Ali , Yunlong Lu , Wenxin Li

Action spotting in soccer videos is the task of identifying the specific time when a certain key action of the game occurs. Lately, it has received a large amount of attention and powerful methods have been introduced. Action spotting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Alejandro Cartas , Coloma Ballester , Gloria Haro

Players and ball detection are among the first required steps on a football analytics platform. Until recently, the existing open datasets on which the evaluations of most models were based, were not sufficient. In this work, we point out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Konstantinos Moutselos , Ilias Maglogiannis

This paper introduces an approach to predicting the next event in a soccer match, a challenge bearing remarkable similarities to the problem faced by Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike other methods that severely limit event dynamics in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tiago Mendes-Neves , Luís Meireles , João Mendes-Moreira

We introduce the problem of generating Let's Play-style commentary of gameplay video via machine learning. We propose an analysis of Let's Play commentary and a framework for building such a system. To test this framework we build an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Matthew Guzdial , Shukan Shah , Mark Riedl

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ismael Elsharkawi , Ahmed Sait , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem , Hossam Sharara , Abdelrahman Eldesokey

Goals are results of pin-point shots and it is a pivotal decision in soccer when, how and where to shoot. The main contribution of this study is two-fold. At first, after showing that there exists high spatial correlation in the data of…

Applications · Statistics 2021-04-08 Soudeep Deb , Debangan Dey

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task for describing the content of audio clips with natural language sentences. This task has attracted increasing attention and substantial progress has been made in recent years.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

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

Recent advances in soccer understanding have demonstrated rapid progress, yet existing research predominantly focuses on isolated or narrow tasks. To bridge this gap, we propose a comprehensive framework for holistic soccer understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiayuan Rao , Zifeng Li , Haoning Wu , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

In the rapidly evolving field of sports analytics, the automation of targeted video processing is a pivotal advancement. We propose PlayerTV, an innovative framework which harnesses state-of-the-art AI technologies for automatic player…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Håkon Maric Solberg , Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh , Sushant Gautam , Saeed Shafiee Sabet , Pål Halvorsen , Cise Midoglu