10 papers
TennisVAR: A Stroke-Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Large Language Model for Tactical Reasoning in Tennis Videos
Yifan Mei, Qingling Shi, Changli Wu +3
Sports-video understanding is moving beyond event recognition toward explaining how actions collectively shape match progression, however, existing tennis-video methods either perc…
BasketEvent: Understanding Who Did What and When in Basketball Videos
Yu Zhang, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu +1
Comprehensive basketball video understanding requires resolving not only what event occurs, but also who is responsible and when the key evidence appears. However, exist- ing metho…
WorldCupArena: Fine-Grained Evaluation of Language Models and Deep-Research Agents on Football Forecasting
Zhaokai Wang, Tianlin Gui, Jiayuan Rao +3
Predicting a football match before kickoff requires more than knowing past results: a model must use changing information and make a clear prediction before the answer is available…
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…
SoccerMaster: A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding
Haolin Yang, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu +1
Soccer understanding has recently garnered growing research interest due to its domain-specific complexity and unique challenges. Unlike prior works that typically rely on isolated…
SoccerRef-Agents: Multi-Agent System for Automated Soccer Refereeing
Zi Meng, Wanli Song, Yi Hu +2
Refereeing is vital in sports, where fair, accurate, and explainable decisions are fundamental. While intelligent assistant technologies are being widely adopted in soccer refereei…