2023 Challenges
Discover our 2023 challenges
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. 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.
Discover our different challenges through the replays of our tutorials on YouTube.
Theme 1: Broadcast video Understanding
Action Spotting 2023
📢3️⃣ Third edition of the Action Spotting Challenge! 🚀 The task and the annotations are the same as the previous challenge.
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: AINSports / 💰Prize: 500$
👑 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 Design
Ball Action Spotting 2023 (new)
📢1️⃣ First edition of the Ball Action Spotting Challenge! 🚀 In this task, participants have to accurately spot (with a 1-second precision) all ball pass and drive events!
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: AINSports / 💰Prize: 500$
👑 Winner: Ruslan Baikulov From lRomul
Dense Video Captioning 2023 (new)
📢1️⃣ First edition of the Dense Video Captioning Challenge! 🚀 In this task, participants have to generate captions describing the game anchored in time!
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: AINSports / 💰Prize: 1000$
👑 Winners: Zheng Ruan, Ruixuan Liu, Shimin Chen, Mengying Zhou, Xinquan Yang, Wei Li, Chen Chen, and Wei Shen From OPPO Research Institute and Tongji University
Theme 2: Field Understanding
Camera Calibration 2023
📢2️⃣ Second edition of the Camera Calibration Challenge! 🚀 This year's challenge includes more data and annotations than the first edition!
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: EVS Broadcast Equipments / 💰Prize: 1000$
👑 Winners: Nikolay Falaleev and Ruilong Chen From Sportlight Technology
Theme 3: Player Understanding
Player Tracking 2023
📢2️⃣ Second edition of the Player Tracking Challenge! 🚀 In this year's task, we do not provide ground truth bounding boxes, the participants also need to localize the players!
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: Baidu Research / 💰Prize: 1000$
👑 Winners: Adrien Maglo, Astrid Orcesi, and Quoc-Cuong Pham From Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List
Re-Identification 2023
📢2️⃣ Second edition of the Player Re-Identification Challenge! 🚀 The task and the annotations are the same as the previous challenge.
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: Synergy Sports, a division of SportRadar / 💰Prize: 500$
👑 Winners: Konrad Habel, Fabian Deuser, and Norbert Oswald From University of the Bundeswehr Munich Institute for Distributed Intelligent Systems(VIS)
Jersey Number 2023 (new)
📢1️⃣ First edition of the Player Jersey Number Recognition Challenge! 🚀 The goal of this task is to classify the jersey number of a player inside a provided tracklets.
💻Development Kit / 📚Rules / 📊Evaluation Server
🤝Sponsor: Synergy Sports, a division of SportRadar / 💰Prize: 500$
👑 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 University