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Feature Combination Meets Attention: Baidu Soccer Embeddings and Transformer based Temporal Detection

arXiv 2106.14447 ↗First posted 28 Jun 2021cs.CV cs.AI cs.LGcited by 27

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Abstract (arXiv)

With rapidly evolving internet technologies and emerging tools, sports related videos generated online are increasing at an unprecedentedly fast pace. To automate sports video editing/highlight generation process, a key task is to precisely recognize and locate the events in the long untrimmed videos. In this tech report, we present a two-stage paradigm to detect what and when events happen in soccer broadcast videos. Specifically, we fine-tune multiple action recognition models on soccer data to extract high-level semantic features, and design a transformer based temporal detection module to locate the target events. This approach achieved the state-of-the-art performance in both two tasks, i.e., action spotting and replay grounding, in the SoccerNet-v2 Challenge, under CVPR 2021 ActivityNet workshop. Our soccer embedding features are released at https://github.com/baidu-research/vidpress-sports. By sharing these features with the broader community, we hope to accelerate the research into soccer video understanding.

Key facts. Cited by 27 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 19 of its 22 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Jun 2021.

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  1. 2023SoccerNet-Caption: Dense Video Captioning for Soccer Broadcasts Commentariescited by 57
  2. 2022Spotting Temporally Precise, Fine-Grained Events in Videocited by 40
  3. 2024MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generationcited by 37
  4. 2024SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction: End-to-End Athlete Tracking and Identification on a Minimapcited by 34
  5. 2022SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Resultscited by 28
  6. 2022Temporally Precise Action Spotting in Soccer Videos Using Dense Detection Anchorscited by 27
  7. 2024Towards Universal Soccer Video Understandingcited by 21
  8. 2023SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Resultscited by 20
  9. 2023COMEDIAN: Self-Supervised Learning and Knowledge Distillation for Action Spotting using Transformerscited by 17
  10. 2024ASTRA: An Action Spotting TRAnsformer for Soccer Videoscited by 16
  11. 2022Action Spotting using Dense Detection Anchors Revisited: Submission to the SoccerNet Challenge 2022cited by 14
  12. 2022Faster-TAD: Towards Temporal Action Detection with Proposal Generation and Classification in a Unified Networkcited by 10
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  1. 2022A Graph-Based Method for Soccer Action Spotting Using Unsupervised Player Classificationcited by 10
  2. 2025Action Anticipation from SoccerNet Football Video Broadcastscited by 9
  3. 2024Unifying Global and Local Scene Entities Modelling for Precise Action Spottingcited by 8
  4. 2023Survey of Action Recognition, Spotting and Spatio-Temporal Localization in Soccer -- Current Trends and Research Perspectivescited by 7
  5. 2024Deep learning for action spotting in association football videoscited by 7
  6. 2025Domain Adaptation of VLM for Soccer Video Understandingcited by 7
  7. 2025Precise Event Spotting in Sports Videos: Solving Long-Range Dependency and Class Imbalancecited by 6
  8. 2023A Boosted Model Ensembling Approach to Ball Action Spotting in Videos: The Runner-Up Solution to CVPR'23 SoccerNet Challengecited by 4
  9. 2025Deep Learning for Sports Video Event Detection: Tasks, Datasets, Methods, and Challengescited by 3
  10. 2025From Multimodal Perception to Strategic Reasoning: A Survey on AI-Generated Game Commentarycited by 3
  11. 2026AdaSpot: Spend Resolution Where It Matters for Precise Event Spottingcited by 2
  12. 2026Detecting Precise Hand Touch Moments in Egocentric Videocited by 2
  13. 2025Do We Need Large VLMs for Spotting Soccer Actions?cited by 1
  14. 2024Technical Report for SoccerNet Challenge 2022 -- Replay Grounding Taskcited by 0
  15. 2025TrajSV: A Trajectory-based Model for Sports Video Representations and Applicationscited by 0