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SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos

arXiv 2011.13367 ↗First posted 26 Nov 2020cs.CVcited by 131

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Understanding broadcast videos is a challenging task in computer vision, as it requires generic reasoning capabilities to appreciate the content offered by the video editing. In this work, we propose SoccerNet-v2, a novel large-scale corpus of manual annotations for the SoccerNet video dataset, along with open challenges to encourage more research in soccer understanding and broadcast production. Specifically, we release around 300k annotations within SoccerNet's 500 untrimmed broadcast soccer videos. We extend current tasks in the realm of soccer to include action spotting, camera shot segmentation with boundary detection, and we define a novel replay grounding task. For each task, we provide and discuss benchmark results, reproducible with our open-source adapted implementations of the most relevant works in the field. SoccerNet-v2 is presented to the broader research community to help push computer vision closer to automatic solutions for more general video understanding and production purposes.

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  1. 2023Deep Learning for Event-based Vision: A Comprehensive Survey and Benchmarkscited by 90
  2. 2022SoccerNet-Tracking: Multiple Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark in Soccer Videoscited by 80
  3. 2022Hard to Track Objects with Irregular Motions and Similar Appearances? Make It Easier by Buffering the Matching Spacecited by 66
  4. 2023SoccerNet-Caption: Dense Video Captioning for Soccer Broadcasts Commentariescited by 57
  5. 2023TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tacticscited by 44
  6. 2021Camera Calibration and Player Localization in SoccerNet-v2 and Investigation of their Representations for Action Spottingcited by 43
  7. 2024Sports-QA: A Large-Scale Video Question Answering Benchmark for Complex and Professional Sportscited by 41
  8. 2022Spotting Temporally Precise, Fine-Grained Events in Videocited by 40
  9. 2023VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Viewscited by 38
  10. 2022DeepSportradar-v1: Computer Vision Dataset for Sports Understanding with High Quality Annotationscited by 37
  11. 2024MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generationcited by 37
  12. 2024SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction: End-to-End Athlete Tracking and Identification on a Minimapcited by 34
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  1. 2021Temporally-Aware Feature Pooling for Action Spotting in Soccer Broadcastscited by 30
  2. 2022A Survey on Video Action Recognition in Sports: Datasets, Methods and Applicationscited by 28
  3. 2022SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Resultscited by 28
  4. 2023GOAL: A Challenging Knowledge-grounded Video Captioning Benchmark for Real-time Soccer Commentary Generationcited by 28
  5. 2021Feature Combination Meets Attention: Baidu Soccer Embeddings and Transformer based Temporal Detectioncited by 27
  6. 2022Temporally Precise Action Spotting in Soccer Videos Using Dense Detection Anchorscited by 27
  7. 2022Semi-Supervised Training to Improve Player and Ball Detection in Soccercited by 25
  8. 2022TVCalib: Camera Calibration for Sports Field Registration in Soccercited by 22
  9. 2024X-VARS: Introducing Explainability in Football Refereeing with Multi-Modal Large Language Modelcited by 22
  10. 2022A Comprehensive Review of Computer Vision in Sports: Open Issues, Future Trends and Research Directionscited by 21
  11. 2024T-DEED: Temporal-Discriminability Enhancer Encoder-Decoder for Precise Event Spotting in Sports Videoscited by 21
  12. 2024Towards Universal Soccer Video Understandingcited by 21
  13. 2022Evaluation of creating scoring opportunities for teammates in soccer via trajectory predictioncited by 20
  14. 2023SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Resultscited by 20
  15. 2025Multi-Agent System for Comprehensive Soccer Understandingcited by 18
  16. 2022Efficient tracking of team sport players with few game-specific annotationscited by 17
  17. 2023COMEDIAN: Self-Supervised Learning and Knowledge Distillation for Action Spotting using Transformerscited by 17
  18. 2024ASTRA: An Action Spotting TRAnsformer for Soccer Videoscited by 16
  19. 2023ShuttleSet: A Human-Annotated Stroke-Level Singles Dataset for Badminton Tactical Analysiscited by 15
  20. 2024AutoSoccerPose: Automated 3D posture Analysis of Soccer Shot Movementscited by 15
  21. 2022Action Spotting using Dense Detection Anchors Revisited: Submission to the SoccerNet Challenge 2022cited by 14
  22. 2023Towards Active Learning for Action Spotting in Association Football Videoscited by 14
  23. 2024PnLCalib: Sports Field Registration via Points and Lines Optimizationcited by 14
  24. 2024A Universal Protocol to Benchmark Camera Calibration for Sportscited by 14
  25. 2025WorldPose: A World Cup Dataset for Global 3D Human Pose Estimationcited by 14
  26. 2025TimeSoccer: An End-to-End Multimodal Large Language Model for Soccer Commentary Generationcited by 13
  27. 2022Temporal Perceiver: A General Architecture for Arbitrary Boundary Detectioncited by 12
  28. 2024SoccerNet-Echoes: A Soccer Game Audio Commentary Datasetcited by 12
  29. 2023A Survey of Deep Learning in Sports Applications: Perception, Comprehension, and Decisioncited by 11
  30. 2022Automatic event detection in football using tracking datacited by 10
  31. 2022A Graph-Based Method for Soccer Action Spotting Using Unsupervised Player Classificationcited by 10
  32. 2025SoccerMaster: A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understandingcited by 10
  33. 2025Action Anticipation from SoccerNet Football Video Broadcastscited by 9
  34. 2026Attend Before Attention: Efficient and Scalable Video Understanding via Autoregressive Gazingcited by 9
  35. 2024Unifying Global and Local Scene Entities Modelling for Precise Action Spottingcited by 8
  36. 2024Towards AI-Powered Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) for Association Footballcited by 8
  37. 2024SoccerNet 2024 Challenges Resultscited by 8
  38. 2025SoccerChat: Integrating Multimodal Data for Enhanced Soccer Game Understandingcited by 8

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