Sports Video Analysis

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The field turns sports footage into structured information about players, movement, events, tactics, and performance, supporting coaching, officiating, and media. Common approaches combine object detection and tracking with pose estimation, camera calibration, and temporal models such as transformers or interaction graphs for action spotting and trajectory analysis. Benchmarks including SoccerNet and SportsMOT test tracking and event recognition, while newer video-language systems generate commentary and answer questions across longer or multiple camera views. Recognition is improving, but reliable identity tracking, precise temporal grounding, and rule-based or tactical reasoning remain difficult in crowded, long-form, and unfamiliar settings.

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83 papers9 papers in the last four weeks, down 36% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. SoccerRef-Agents: Multi-Agent System for Automated Soccer Refereeing

    Apr 25, 2026Zi Meng, Wanli Song, Yi Hu +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsSports Video Analysis

    University of Michigan, Michigan, USA · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  2. Towards Temporal Compositional Reasoning in Long-Form Sports Videos

    Apr 24, 2026Siyu Cao, Lu Zhang, Ruizhe Zeng +1Temporal Video GroundingTemporal Reasoning

    MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Nanjing Artificial Intelligence Research of IA, Nanjing, 211100, China

  3. SAMIDARE: Advanced Tracking-by-Segmentation for Dense Scenarios

    Apr 24, 2026Shozaburo Hirano, Norimichi UkitaSports AnalyticsVisual Object Tracking

    Toyota Technological Institute

  4. Integrated Real-Time Motion Tracking and AI Analysis for Athletic Performance Optimization

    Apr 23, 2026Parth Agrawal, Ronit, Sagar Kumar +1Markerless Motion CaptureSports Video Analysis

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chandigarh University Punjab, India

  5. MambaKick: Early Penalty Direction Prediction from HAR Embeddings

    Apr 17, 2026Henry O. Velesaca, David Freire-Obregon, Abel Reyes-Angulo +2Sports Video AnalysisSoccer Analytics

    ESPOL Polytechnic University, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Km. 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Guayaquil, 090902, Ecuador · Software Engineering Department, Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC-UGR), University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain · SIANI, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain +2

  6. RefereeBench: Are Video MLLMs Ready to be Multi-Sport Referees

    Apr 17, 2026Yichen Xu, Yuanhang Liu, Chuhan Wang +5Sports Video AnalysisVideo Reasoning

    Renmin University of China Beijing, China · Sichuan University Chengdu, China

  7. AI Driven Soccer Analysis Using Computer Vision

    Apr 9, 2026Adrian Manchado, Tanner Cellio, Jonathan Keane +1Soccer AnalyticsSports Video Analysis

    Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI 53202

  8. Towards Athlete Fatigue Assessment from Association Football Videos

    Apr 7, 2026Xavier Bou, Nathan Correger, Alexandre Cloots +7Sports AnalyticsSoccer Analytics

    Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay · AMIAD, Pôle Recherche · University of Liège +3

  9. BoxComm: Benchmarking Category-Aware Commentary Generation and Narration Rhythm in Boxing

    Apr 6, 2026Kaiwen Wang, Kaili Zheng, Rongrong Deng +3Sports Video AnalysisVideo-Language Model Evaluation

    Tsinghua University Beijing, China · Beijing Sport University Beijing, China

  10. GRAZE: Grounded Refinement and Motion-Aware Zero-Shot Event Localization

    Apr 1, 2026Syed Ahsan Masud Zaidi, Lior Shamir, William Hsu +2Sports Video AnalysisTemporal Action Localization

    Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA · Albright College, Reading, PA, USA

  11. ViTs for Action Classification in Videos: An Approach to Risky Tackle Detection in American Football Practice Videos

    Apr 1, 2026Syed Ahsan Masud Zaidi, William Hsu, Scott DietrichSports Video AnalysisVideo Action Recognition

    Kansas State University, Manhattan , KS ,66506, USA · Albright College, Athletics/Athletic training, Reading, PA,1962, USA

  12. Towards Automatic Soccer Commentary Generation with Knowledge-Enhanced Visual Reasoning

    Mar 31, 2026Zeyu Jin, Xiaoyu Qin, Songtao Zhou +2Grounded Text GenerationSports Video Analysis

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · BNRist, Tsinghua University

  13. BFMD: A Full-Match Badminton Dense Dataset for Dense Shot Captioning

    Mar 26, 2026Ning Ding, Keisuke Fujii, Toru TamakiDense Video CaptioningSports Video Analysis

    Nagoya Institute of Technology · Nagoya University

  14. SportSkills: Physical Skill Learning from Sports Instructional Videos

    Mar 26, 2026Kumar Ashutosh, Chi Hsuan Wu, Kristen GraumanSports Video AnalysisVideo Representation Learning

    University of Texas at Austin

  15. Learning Consistent Temporal Grounding between Related Tasks in Sports Coaching

    Mar 19, 2026Arushi Rai, Adriana KovashkaTemporal Video GroundingTemporal Attention

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA

  16. TennisExpert: Towards Expert-Level Analytical Sports Video Understanding

    Mar 11, 2026Zhaoyu Liu, Xi Weng, Lianyu Hu +4Sports Video AnalysisTemporal Video Understanding

    National University of Singapore · Nanyang Technological University · Griffith University

  17. Scalable Injury-Risk Screening in Baseball Pitching From Broadcast Video

    Mar 5, 2026Jerrin Bright, Justin Mende, John ZelekMarkerless Motion CaptureSports Video Analysis

    Vision and Image Processing Lab · University of Waterloo, Canada

  18. Velocity and stroke rate reconstruction of canoe sprint team boats based on panned and zoomed video recordings

    Feb 26, 2026Julian Ziegler, Daniel Matthes, Finn Gerdts +5Sports Video Analysis

    Laboratory for Biosignal Processing, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig, Germany · Research Group Canoeing, Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT), Leipzig, Germany · German Canoe Federation, Duisburg, Germany

  19. AdaSpot: Spend Resolution Where It Matters for Precise Event Spotting

    Feb 25, 2026Artur Xarles, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund +1Temporal Action LocalizationSports Video Analysis

    Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain · Computer Vision Center, Cerdanyola del Vall`es, Spain · Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  20. Wide Open Gazes: Quantifying Visual Exploratory Behavior in Soccer with Pose Enhanced Positional Data

    Feb 19, 2026Joris BekkersSoccer AnalyticsSports Analytics

    U.S. Soccer Federation, Atlanta, USA · UnravelSports, Breda, Netherlands

  21. A Computer Vision Framework for Multi-Class Detection and Tracking in Soccer Broadcast Footage

    Feb 17, 2026Daniel TshianiSports Video AnalysisSoccer Analytics

  22. Where is the multimodal goal post? On the Ability of Foundation Models to Recognize Highlights in Videos

    Jan 22, 2026Aditya K Surikuchi, Raquel Fernández, Sandro PezzelleMultimodal Foundation ModelsTemporal Video Understanding

    Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam

  23. SoccerTrack v2: A Full-Pitch Panoramic Video Dataset for Game State Reconstruction and Ball Action Spotting

    Aug 3, 2025Atom Scott, Ikuma Uchida, Kento Kuroda +2Sports Video AnalysisMulti-Object Tracking

    Nagoya University∗ · University of Tsukuba