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Camera calibration is a crucial component in the realm of sports analytics, as it serves as the foundation to extract 3D information out of the broadcast images. Despite the significance of camera calibration research in sports analytics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Floriane Magera , Thomas Hoyoux , Olivier Barnich , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

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

In video understanding, action spotting consists in temporally localizing human-induced events annotated with single timestamps. In this paper, we propose a novel loss function that specifically considers the temporal context naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Anthony Cioppa , Adrien Deliège , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck , Rikke Gade , Thomas B. Moeslund

Activity recognition in sport is an attractive field for computer vision research. Game, player and team analysis are of great interest and research topics within this field emerge with the goal of automated analysis. The very specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Georg Waltner , Thomas Mauthner , Horst Bischof

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical and challenging task in computer vision, particularly in situations involving objects with similar appearances but diverse movements, as seen in team sports. Current methods, largely reliant on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Atom Scott , Ikuma Uchida , Ning Ding , Rikuhei Umemoto , Rory Bunker , Ren Kobayashi , Takeshi Koyama , Masaki Onishi , Yoshinari Kameda , Keisuke Fujii

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…

This study explores the potential of super-resolution techniques in enhancing object detection accuracy in football. Given the sport's fast-paced nature and the critical importance of precise object (e.g. ball, player) tracking for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Karolina Seweryn , Gabriel Chęć , Szymon Łukasik , Anna Wróblewska

Offside detection in soccer has emerged as one of the most important decisions with an average of 50 offside decisions every game. False detections and rash calls adversely affect game conditions and in many cases drastically change the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Karthik Muthuraman , Pranav Joshi , Suraj Kiran Raman

This work focuses on player re-identification in broadcast videos of team sports. Specifically, we focus on identifying the same player in images captured from different camera viewpoints during any given moment of a match. This task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Bharath Comandur

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

The long-standing problem of novel view synthesis has many applications, notably in sports broadcasting. Photorealistic novel view synthesis of soccer actions, in particular, is of enormous interest to the broadcast industry. Yet only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sacha Lewin , Maxime Vandegar , Thomas Hoyoux , Olivier Barnich , Gilles Louppe

We present a new approach for identifying situations and behaviours, which we call "moves", from soccer games in the 2D simulation league. Being able to identify key situations and behaviours are useful capabilities for analysing soccer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Olivia Michael , Oliver Obst , Falk Schmidsberger , Frieder Stolzenburg

We present a neural network TTNet aimed at real-time processing of high-resolution table tennis videos, providing both temporal (events spotting) and spatial (ball detection and semantic segmentation) data. This approach gives core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Roman Voeikov , Nikolay Falaleev , Ruslan Baikulov

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in sports is highly challenging due to irregular player motion, uniform appearances, and frequent occlusions. These difficulties are further exacerbated by the geometric distortion and extreme scale variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rong-Lin Jian , Ming-Chi Luo , Chen-Wei Huang , Chia-Ming Lee , Yu-Fan Lin , Chih-Chung Hsu

In the task of dense video captioning of Soccernet dataset, we propose to generate a video caption of each soccer action and locate the timestamp of the caption. Firstly, we apply Blip as our video caption framework to generate video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zheng Ruan , Ruixuan Liu , Shimin Chen , Mengying Zhou , Xinquan Yang , Wei Li , Chen Chen , Wei Shen

Sports video analysis is a widespread research topic. Its applications are very diverse, like events detection during a match, video summary, or fine-grained movement analysis of athletes. As part of the MediaEval 2022 benchmarking…

Real-world images used for training machine learning algorithms are often unstructured and inconsistent. The process of analysing and tagging these images can be costly and error prone (also availability, gaps and legal conundrums).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jose Cerqueira Fernandes , Benjamin Kenwright

Image understanding is a foundational task in computer vision, with recent applications emerging in soccer posture analysis. However, existing publicly available datasets lack comprehensive information, notably in the form of posture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Calvin Yeung , Kenjiro Ide , Keisuke Fujii

In the last years, scientific and industrial research has experienced a growing interest in acquiring large annotated data sets to train artificial intelligence algorithms for tackling problems in different domains. In this context, we have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Silvio Barra , Salvatore M. Carta , Alessandro Giuliani , Alessia Pisu , Alessandro Sebastian Podda , DanieleRiboni

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