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Humanoid soccer robots perceive their environment exclusively through cameras. This paper presents a monocular vision system that was originally developed for use in the RoboCup Humanoid League, but is expected to be transferable to other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Hafez Farazi , Philipp Allgeuer , Sven Behnke

In problems such as sports video analytics, it is difficult to obtain accurate frame level annotations and exact event duration because of the lengthy videos and sheer volume of video data. This issue is even more pronounced in fast-paced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Kanav Vats , Mehrnaz Fani , Pascale Walters , David A. Clausi , John Zelek

The SportsMOT dataset aims to solve multiple object tracking of athletes in different sports scenes such as basketball or soccer. The dataset is challenging because of the unstable camera view, athletes' complex trajectory, and complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jie Wang , Yuzhou Peng , Xiaodong Yang , Ting Wang , Yanming Zhang

Penalty kicks often decide championships, yet goalkeepers must anticipate the kicker's intent from subtle biomechanical cues within a very short time window. This study introduces a real-time, multi-modal deep learning framework to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pasindu Ranasinghe , Pamudu Ranasinghe

Elite football is believed to have evolved in recent years, yet systematic evidence for the pace and form of that change remains sparse. Drawing on event-level records for 13,018 matches across ten top-tier men's and women's leagues in…

Multi-object tracking in sports scenes plays a critical role in gathering players statistics, supporting further analysis, such as automatic tactical analysis. Yet existing MOT benchmarks cast little attention on the domain, limiting its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yutao Cui , Chenkai Zeng , Xiaoyu Zhao , Yichun Yang , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

Predicting the future motion of road participants is crucial for autonomous driving but is extremely challenging due to staggering motion uncertainty. Recently, most motion forecasting methods resort to the goal-based strategy, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mingkun Wang , Xinge Zhu , Changqian Yu , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Ruochun Jin , Xiaoguang Ren , Dongchun Ren , Mingxu Wang , Wenjing Yang

Accurate automated detection of road pavement distresses is critical for the timely identification and repair of potentially accident-inducing road hazards such as potholes and other surface-level asphalt cracks. Deployment of such a system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Philippe Heitzmann

The proliferation of generative video technologies has intensified the need for reliable methods to detect and characterize synthetic media. To address this challenge, we organized the \href{https://safe-video-2025.dsri.org}{SAFE: Synthetic…

Cycling is a promising sustainable mode for commuting and leisure in cities, however, the fear of getting hit or fall reduces its wide expansion as a commuting mode. In this paper, we introduce a novel method called CyclingNet for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , James Haworth , Nicola Christie , Tao Cheng

Temporal action localization aims to identify the boundaries and categories of actions in videos, such as scoring a goal in a football match. Single-frame supervision has emerged as a labor-efficient way to train action localizers as it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Changjian Chen , Jiashu Chen , Weikai Yang , Haoze Wang , Johannes Knittel , Xibin Zhao , Steffen Koch , Thomas Ertl , Shixia Liu

Robust and accurate ball detection is a critical component for autonomous humanoid soccer robots, particularly in dynamic and challenging environments such as RoboCup outdoor fields. However, traditional supervised approaches require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Can Lin , Daniele Affinita , Marco E. P. Zimmatore , Daniele Nardi , Domenico D. Bloisi , Vincenzo Suriani

In this paper, we propose a novel method to register football broadcast video frames on the static top view model of the playing surface. The proposed method is fully automatic in contrast to the current state of the art which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Rahul Anand Sharma , Bharath Bhat , Vineet Gandhi , C. V. Jawahar

We propose using Network Science as a complementary tool to analyze player and team behavior during a football match. Specifically, we introduce four kinds of networks based on different ways of interaction between players. Our approach's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-13 J. M. Buldu , D. Garrido , D. R. Antequera , J. Busquets , E. Estrada , R. Resta , R. Lopez del Campo

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

The availability of massive data about sports activities offers nowadays the opportunity to quantify the relation between performance and success. In this study, we analyze more than 6,000 games and 10 million events in six European leagues…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-17 Luca Pappalardo , Paolo Cintia

Complex interactions between two opposing agents frequently occur in domains of machine learning, game theory, and other application domains. Quantitatively analyzing the strategies involved can provide an objective basis for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Calvin C. K. Yeung , Keisuke Fujii

Given an image sequence featuring a portion of a sports field filmed by a moving and uncalibrated camera, such as the one of the smartphones, our goal is to compute automatically in real time the focal length and extrinsic camera parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Leonardo Citraro , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Stefano Savarè , Vivek Jayaram , Charles Dubout , Félix Renaut , Andrés Hasfura , Horesh Ben Shitrit , Pascal Fua

Soccer Simulation 2D (SS2D) is a simulation of a real soccer game in two dimensions. In soccer, passing behavior is an essential action for keeping the ball in possession of our team and creating goal opportunities. Similarly, for SS2D,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Aref Sayareh , Omid Amini , Stan Matwin Amilcar Soares

With the renaissance of neural networks, object detection has slowly shifted from a bottom-up recognition problem to a top-down approach. Best in class algorithms enumerate a near-complete list of objects and classify each into object/not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 E. Pryzant , Q. Deng , B. Mei , E. Shrestha