Jersey Number Recognition

In this year's SoccerNet Jersey Number challenge, participants are given short video tracklets of soccer players and are asked to identify the jersey number of the player. This task can be useful for consumer applications as it helps to build systems that can accurately identify and recognize players in real-time during a soccer game. This information can be used to create interactive experiences for fans, such as player statistics, player tracking, and in-game analysis. Additionally, this technology can also be used in broadcast production to add player labels and enhance the viewing experience. By encouraging research on player recognition, the SoccerNet Jersey Number challenge contributes to the development of more engaging and informative consumer applications for soccer fans.

Our task.

Given short video tracklets of soccer players that can be a few hundreds frames long, the participants are asked to identify the jersey number of each player (Players with non visible jersey numbers are annotated with the "-1" value). The task is challenging because of the low quality of the thumbnails (low resolution, high motion blur) and because the jersey numbers might be visible on a very small subset of the whole tracklet.

All of our classes.

All jersey numbers from 1 to 99, and one extra class when there is no jersey number visible in the tracklet.

Our data.

The SoccerNet Jersey Number dataset is composed of 2853 tracklets of players extracted from the SoccerNet tracking videos. The challenge set is composed of 1211 separate players tracklets with hidden annotations.