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cs.CV2026

SoccerNet-FoulRet: Retrieving Semantically Similar Soccer Foul Videos

Jacobus Arthur, Ahmad Sait, Batool Hani +6

Refereeing decisions in professional soccer remain inconsistent because referees cannot easily compare a contentious foul against similar past cases. We cast this as a retrieval pr…

cs.CV2026

SoccerNet 2026 Challenges Results

Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Håkan Ardö +102

The SoccerNet 2026 Challenges constitute the sixth annual edition of the SoccerNet open benchmarking effort, dedicated to advancing computer vision research in sports video underst…

cs.CV2025

Nexels: Neurally-Textured Surfels for Real-Time Novel View Synthesis with Sparse Geometries

Victor Rong, Jan Held, Victor Chu +5

Though Gaussian splatting has achieved impressive results in novel view synthesis, it requires millions of primitives to model highly textured scenes, even when the geometry of the…

cs.CV2025

MeshSplatting: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Meshes

Jan Held, Sanghyun Son, Renaud Vandeghen +7

Primitive-based splatting methods like 3D Gaussian Splatting have revolutionized novel view synthesis with real-time rendering. However, their point-based representations remain in…

cs.CV2025

Triangle Splatting+: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Triangles

Jan Held, Renaud Vandeghen, Sanghyun Son +6

Reconstructing 3D scenes and synthesizing novel views has seen rapid progress in recent years. Neural Radiance Fields demonstrated that continuous volumetric radiance fields can ac…

cs.CV2025

SoccerNet 2025 Challenges Results

Silvio Giancola, Anthony Cioppa, Marc Gutiérrez-Pérez +115

The SoccerNet 2025 Challenges mark the fifth annual edition of the SoccerNet open benchmarking effort, dedicated to advancing computer vision research in football video understandi…

cs.CV2025

Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering

Jan Held, Renaud Vandeghen, Adrien Deliege +7

The field of computer graphics was revolutionized by models such as Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting, displacing triangles as the dominant representation for photog…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Physically Interpretable Probabilistic Domain Characterization

Anaïs Halin, Sébastien Piérard, Renaud Vandeghen +10

Characterizing domains is essential for models analyzing dynamic environments, as it allows them to adapt to evolving conditions or to hand the task over to backup systems when fac…

cs.CV2024

3D Convex Splatting: Radiance Field Rendering with 3D Smooth Convexes

Jan Held, Renaud Vandeghen, Abdullah Hamdi +6

Recent advances in radiance field reconstruction, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have achieved high-quality novel view synthesis and fast rendering by representing scenes wi…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SoccerNet 2024 Challenges Results

Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Vladimir Somers +81

The SoccerNet 2024 challenges represent the fourth annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. These challenges aim to advance research across multiple t…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Towards AI-Powered Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) for Association Football

Jan Held, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola +4

Over the past decade, the technology used by referees in football has improved substantially, enhancing the fairness and accuracy of decisions. This progress has culminated in the…

cs.CV2024★ 28 cited

X-VARS: Introducing Explainability in Football Refereeing with Multi-Modal Large Language Model

Jan Held, Hani Itani, Anthony Cioppa +3

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has led to significant improvements in automated decision-making. However, the increased performance of models often comes at the c…

cs.CV2023★ 28 cited

SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Results

Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Vladimir Somers +99

The SoccerNet 2023 challenges were the third annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. For this third edition, the challenges were composed of seven vi…

cs.CV2023★ 46 cited

VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views

Jan Held, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola +3

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has revolutionized association football, enabling referees to review incidents on the pitch, make informed decisions, and ensure fairness. However…