X-vars: Introducing explainability in football refereeing with multi-modal large language models

J Held, H Itani, A Cioppa, S Giancola… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has led to significant improvements in
automated decision-making. However the increased performance of models often comes at …

SoccerNet-caption: Dense video captioning for soccer broadcasts commentaries

H Mkhallati, A Cioppa, S Giancola… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Soccer is more than just a game-it is a passion that transcends borders and unites people
worldwide. From the roar of the crowds to the excitement of the commentators, every …

Beyond the Premier: Assessing action spotting transfer capability across diverse domains

B Cabado, A Cioppa, S Giancola… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Football stands as one of the most successful sports in history thanks to the plethora of
professional leagues broadcasted worldwide followed by avid fans further fueled by the …

VARS: Video assistant referee system for automated soccer decision making from multiple views

J Held, A Cioppa, S Giancola… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has revolutionized association football,
enabling referees to review incidents on the pitch, make informed decisions, and ensure …

Towards active learning for action spotting in association football videos

S Giancola, A Cioppa, J Georgieva… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Association football is a complex and dynamic sport, with numerous actions occurring
simultaneously in each game. Analyzing football videos is challenging and requires …

A survey of deep learning in sports applications: Perception, comprehension, and decision

Z Zhao, W Chai, S Hao, W Hu, G Wang, S Cao… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deep learning has the potential to revolutionize sports performance, with applications
ranging from perception and comprehension to decision. This paper presents a …

Temporally precise action spotting in soccer videos using dense detection anchors

JVB Soares, A Shah, T Biswas - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a model for temporally precise action spotting in videos, which uses a dense set
of detection anchors, predicting a detection confidence and corresponding fine-grained …

STE: Spatio-temporal encoder for action spotting in soccer videos

A Darwish, T El-Shabrway - Proceedings of the 5th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The task of spotting events in videos has gained high attention recently, as it helps in better
video understanding, and it is a key step in automating the highlights generation. In this …

Astra: An action spotting transformer for soccer videos

A Xarles, S Escalera, TB Moeslund… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we introduce ASTRA, a Transformer-based model designed for the task of
Action Spotting in soccer matches. ASTRA addresses several challenges inherent in the …

Self-Supervised Learning of Spatial Object Positioning in Football

M Baran, I Jánoš - … 9th International Conference on Frontiers of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a pretext task for self-supervised learning of feature extraction on an unlabeled
dataset of football images. The task is based on predicting the relative distance between two …