SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting: Per-Player Attention with Agreement-Based Ensembling
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Abstract (arXiv)
We present our submission to the SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting challenge, which uses a two-stage pipeline: a Track-Aware Action Detector (TAAD) produces per-player action logits from broadcast video, and a Denoising Sequence Transduction (DST) transformer converts game-state features and TAAD logits into structured event sequences. We improve the TAAD with a temporal transformer that adds cross-frame context, alongside several training fixes. For the DST stage, we introduce a two-stage per-player attention mechanism operating on game-state features, and show that a spatial-first attention ordering (cross-player attention before temporal attention) improves validation Macro-F1 by 1.87%. To exploit architectural diversity, we train four model variants and combine them with a Weighted Event Fusion ensemble that applies agreement filtering to suppress single-model false positives while preserving recall, plus a dedicated exception for the rare tackle class. Our final system improves the challenge Macro-F1 from a baseline of 48.6 to 58.94.
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- 2020X3D: Expanding Architectures for Efficient Video Recognitioncited by 637
- 2022Spatio-Temporal Action Detection Under Large Motioncited by 14
- 2025Beyond Pixels: Leveraging the Language of Soccer to Improve Spatio-Temporal Action Detection in Broadcast Videoscited by 5
- 2025FOOTPASS: A Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Tactical Context Dataset for Play-by-Play Action Spotting in Soccer Broadcast Videoscited by 5
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