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SoccerNet 2023 challenges results

Cioppa, Anthony
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Giancola, Silvio
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Somers, Vladimir
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December 1, 2024
Sports Engineering

The SoccerNet 2023 challenges were the third annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. For this third edition, the challenges were composed of seven vision-based tasks split into three main themes. The first theme, broadcast video understanding, is composed of three high-level tasks related to describing events occurring in the video broadcasts: (1) action spotting, focusing on retrieving all timestamps related to global actions in soccer, (2) ball action spotting, focusing on retrieving all timestamps related to the soccer ball change of state, and (3) dense video captioning, focusing on describing the broadcast with natural language and anchored timestamps. The second theme, field understanding, relates to the single task of (4) camera calibration, focusing on retrieving the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters from images. The third and last theme, player understanding, is composed of three low-level tasks related to extracting information about the players: (5) re-identification, focusing on retrieving the same players across multiple views, (6) multiple object tracking, focusing on tracking players and the ball through unedited video streams, and (7) jersey number recognition, focusing on recognizing the jersey number of players from tracklets. Compared to the previous editions of the SoccerNet challenges, tasks (2-3-7) are novel, including new annotations and data, task (4) was enhanced with more data and annotations, and task (6) now focuses on end-to-end approaches. Our report indicates performance trends across tasks: (1) Action spotting is nearing saturation, while (2) ball action spotting improved significantly with advanced end-to-end models. (3) Dense video captioning also saw substantial enhancements aligned with Large Language Models advancements. (4) Camera calibration, redefined end-to-end, demonstrated a significant performance boost. In contrast, (5) player re-identification showed only minor improvements, reflecting decreasing interest. The new (6) multiple object tracking task exhibited notable advances, underscoring the maturity of current techniques. (7) Jersey number recognition received the most focus, achieving impressive results. More information on the tasks, challenges, and leaderboards are available on https://www.soccer-net.org. Baselines and development kits can be found on https://github.com/SoccerNet.

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review article
DOI
10.1007/s12283-024-00466-4
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85198103859

Author(s)
Cioppa, Anthony

Université de Liège

Giancola, Silvio

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Somers, Vladimir

Sportradar

Magera, Floriane

Université de Liège

Zhou, Xin

Baidu, Inc.

Mkhallati, Hassan

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Deliège, Adrien

Université de Liège

Held, Jan

Université de Liège

Hinojosa, Carlos

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Mansourian, Amir M.

Sharif University of Technology

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Date Issued

2024-12-01

Published in
Sports Engineering
Volume

27

Issue

2

Article Number

24

Subjects

Artificial intelligence

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Challenges

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Computer vision

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Datasets

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Soccer

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Video understanding

Editorial or Peer reviewed

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EPFL

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VITA  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

SDAIA-KAUST AI

Visual Computing Center

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January 24, 2025
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