Abstract
Soccer is more than just a game - it is a passion that transcends borders and unites people worldwide. From the roar of the crowds to the excitement of the commentators, every moment of a soccer match is a thrill. Yet, with so many games happening simultaneously, fans cannot watch them all live. Notifications for main actions can help, but lack the engagement of live commentary, leaving fans feeling disconnected. To fulfill this need, we propose in this paper a novel task of dense video captioning focusing on the generation of textual commentaries anchored with single times-tamps. To support this task, we additionally present a challenging dataset consisting of almost 37k timestamped commentaries across 715.9 hours of soccer broadcast videos. Additionally, we propose a first benchmark and baseline for this task, highlighting the difficulty of temporally anchoring commentaries yet showing the capacity to generate meaningful commentaries. By providing broadcasters with a tool to summarize the content of their video with the same level of engagement as a live game, our method could help satisfy the needs of the numerous fans who follow their team but cannot necessarily watch the live game. We believe our method has the potential to enhance the accessibility and understanding of soccer content for a wider audience, bringing the excitement of the game to more people.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2023 |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Pages | 5074-5085 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9798350302493 |
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| State | Published - 2023 |
| Event | 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2023 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: Jun 18 2023 → Jun 22 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops |
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| Volume | 2023-June |
| ISSN (Print) | 2160-7508 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2160-7516 |
Conference
| Conference | 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2023 |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Vancouver |
| Period | 06/18/23 → 06/22/23 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This paper proposes the novel task of single-anchored dense video captioning focusing on generating textual commentaries anchored with single timestamps. To support this task, we present SoccerNet-Caption, a challenging dataset consisting of 37k timestamped commentaries across 715.9 hours of soccer broadcast videos. We benchmarked a first baseline algorithm on this dataset, highlighting the difficulty of temporally anchoring commentaries yet showing the capacity to generate meaningful commentaries. Acknowledgement. This work was partly supported by KAUST OSR through the VCC funding and the SDAIA-KAUST Center of Excellence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. A. Cioppa is funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS.
Publisher Copyright:
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering