Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding

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Main Authors: Rao, Jiayuan, Wu, Haoning, Jiang, Hao, Zhang, Ya, Wang, Yanfeng, Xie, Weidi
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author Rao, Jiayuan
Wu, Haoning
Jiang, Hao
Zhang, Ya
Wang, Yanfeng
Xie, Weidi
author_facet Rao, Jiayuan
Wu, Haoning
Jiang, Hao
Zhang, Ya
Wang, Yanfeng
Xie, Weidi
contents As a globally celebrated sport, soccer has attracted widespread interest from fans all over the world. This paper aims to develop a comprehensive multi-modal framework for soccer video understanding. Specifically, we make the following contributions in this paper: (i) we introduce SoccerReplay-1988, the largest multi-modal soccer dataset to date, featuring videos and detailed annotations from 1,988 complete matches, with an automated annotation pipeline; (ii) we present an advanced soccer-specific visual encoder, MatchVision, which leverages spatiotemporal information across soccer videos and excels in various downstream tasks; (iii) we conduct extensive experiments and ablation studies on event classification, commentary generation, and multi-view foul recognition. MatchVision demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on all of them, substantially outperforming existing models, which highlights the superiority of our proposed data and model. We believe that this work will offer a standard paradigm for sports understanding research.
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spellingShingle Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding
Rao, Jiayuan
Wu, Haoning
Jiang, Hao
Zhang, Ya
Wang, Yanfeng
Xie, Weidi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
As a globally celebrated sport, soccer has attracted widespread interest from fans all over the world. This paper aims to develop a comprehensive multi-modal framework for soccer video understanding. Specifically, we make the following contributions in this paper: (i) we introduce SoccerReplay-1988, the largest multi-modal soccer dataset to date, featuring videos and detailed annotations from 1,988 complete matches, with an automated annotation pipeline; (ii) we present an advanced soccer-specific visual encoder, MatchVision, which leverages spatiotemporal information across soccer videos and excels in various downstream tasks; (iii) we conduct extensive experiments and ablation studies on event classification, commentary generation, and multi-view foul recognition. MatchVision demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on all of them, substantially outperforming existing models, which highlights the superiority of our proposed data and model. We believe that this work will offer a standard paradigm for sports understanding research.
title Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01820