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Autores principales: Dhar, Sauptik, Buoncristiani, Nicholas, Anakata, Joe, Zhang, Haoyu, Munson, Michelle
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19295
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author Dhar, Sauptik
Buoncristiani, Nicholas
Anakata, Joe
Zhang, Haoyu
Munson, Michelle
author_facet Dhar, Sauptik
Buoncristiani, Nicholas
Anakata, Joe
Zhang, Haoyu
Munson, Michelle
contents The advent of large (visual) language models (LLM / LVLM) have led to a deluge of automated human-like systems in several domains including social media content generation, search and recommendation, healthcare prognosis, AI assistants for cognitive tasks etc. Although these systems have been successfully integrated in production; very little focus has been placed on sports, particularly accurate identification and natural language description of the game play. Most existing LLM/LVLMs can explain generic sports activities, but lack sufficient domain-centric sports' jargon to create natural (human-like) descriptions. This work highlights the limitations of existing SoTA LLM/LVLMs for generating production-grade sports captions from images in a desired stylized format, and proposes a two-level fine-tuned LVLM pipeline to address that. The proposed pipeline yields an improvement > 8-10% in the F1, and > 2-10% in BERT score compared to alternative approaches. In addition, it has a small runtime memory footprint and fast execution time. During Super Bowl LIX the pipeline proved its practical application for live professional sports journalism; generating highly accurate and stylized captions at the rate of 6 images per 3-5 seconds for over 1000 images during the game play.
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spellingShingle Large VLM-based Stylized Sports Captioning
Dhar, Sauptik
Buoncristiani, Nicholas
Anakata, Joe
Zhang, Haoyu
Munson, Michelle
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The advent of large (visual) language models (LLM / LVLM) have led to a deluge of automated human-like systems in several domains including social media content generation, search and recommendation, healthcare prognosis, AI assistants for cognitive tasks etc. Although these systems have been successfully integrated in production; very little focus has been placed on sports, particularly accurate identification and natural language description of the game play. Most existing LLM/LVLMs can explain generic sports activities, but lack sufficient domain-centric sports' jargon to create natural (human-like) descriptions. This work highlights the limitations of existing SoTA LLM/LVLMs for generating production-grade sports captions from images in a desired stylized format, and proposes a two-level fine-tuned LVLM pipeline to address that. The proposed pipeline yields an improvement > 8-10% in the F1, and > 2-10% in BERT score compared to alternative approaches. In addition, it has a small runtime memory footprint and fast execution time. During Super Bowl LIX the pipeline proved its practical application for live professional sports journalism; generating highly accurate and stylized captions at the rate of 6 images per 3-5 seconds for over 1000 images during the game play.
title Large VLM-based Stylized Sports Captioning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19295