The SoccerNet challenges are back! We are proud to announce four new challenges at CVPR 2023 including 7 tasks split into three themes: 1. Broadcast video understanding, 2. Field Understanding, and 3. Player understanding. ย In particular, we propose three new tasks based on new soccer-related annotations and data. Feel free to check out our presentation video for more details. You have got plenty of time to come up with an amazing solution! The challenges end on the 30th of May 2023. As for last year's challenges, we will keep you updated on the latest news and the evolution of the leaderboards throughout the competition on our discord server.ย
Discover our different challenges through the replays of our tutorials on YouTube.
๐ข3๏ธโฃ Third edition of the Action Spotting Challenge! ๐ The task and the annotations are the same as the previous challenge.
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๐คSponsor: AINSports / ๐ฐPrize: 500$
๐ Winners: Wenjie Zhang ,Ran Song, Ziyu Meng, Zhiheng Li, Tianjiao Li, and Wei Zhang From School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University and Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Designย
๐ข1๏ธโฃ First edition of the Ball Action Spotting Challenge! ๐ In this task, participants have to accurately spot (with a 1-second precision) all ball pass and drive events!
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๐คSponsor: AINSports / ๐ฐPrize: 500$
๐ Winner: Ruslan Baikulov From lRomul
๐ข1๏ธโฃ First edition of the Dense Video Captioning Challenge! ๐ In this task, participants have to generate captions describing the game anchored in time!
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๐คSponsor: AINSports / ๐ฐPrize: 1000$
๐ Winners: Zheng Ruan, Ruixuan Liu, Shimin Chen, Mengying Zhou, Xinquan Yang, Wei Li, Chen Chen, and Wei Shen From OPPO Research Institute and Tongji Universityย
๐ข2๏ธโฃ Second edition of the Camera Calibration Challenge! ๐ This year's challenge includes more data and annotations than the first edition!
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๐คSponsor: EVS Broadcast Equipments / ๐ฐPrize: 1000$
๐ Winners: Nikolay Falaleev and Ruilong Chen From Sportlight Technologyย
๐ข2๏ธโฃ Second edition of the Player Tracking Challenge! ๐ In this year's task, we do not provide ground truth bounding boxes, the participants also need to localize the players!
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๐คSponsor: Baidu Research / ๐ฐPrize: 1000$
๐ Winners: Adrien Maglo, Astrid Orcesi, and Quoc-Cuong Pham From Universitรฉ Paris-Saclay, CEA, Listย
๐ข2๏ธโฃ Second edition of the Player Re-Identification Challenge! ๐ The task and the annotations are the same as the previous challenge.
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๐คSponsor: Synergy Sports, a division of SportRadar / ๐ฐPrize: 500$
๐ Winners: Konrad Habel, Fabian Deuser, and Norbert Oswald From University of the Bundeswehr Munich Institute for Distributed Intelligent Systems(VIS)ย
๐ข1๏ธโฃ First edition of the Player Jersey Number Recognition Challenge! ๐ The goal of this task is to classify the jersey number of a player inside a provided tracklets.ย
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๐คSponsor: Synergy Sports, a division of SportRadar / ๐ฐPrize: 500$
๐ Winners: Rui Peng, Kexin Zhang, Junpei Zhang, Yanbiao Ma, and Licheng Jiao From Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of the Ministry of Education, Xidian Universityย