Program

June 4. Room: 503.

6.00-7.00
Optional
5-10 km run around DenverJoin the WhatsApp group for more information: https://chat.whatsapp.com/F50JX2E8XWl0BbsRCIP4bW?mode=gi_tCVsports organizers
9.00-9.05WelcomeCVsports organizers
9.05-9.45Invited talkAnalyzing Soccer Actions and Tactics by Learning and ReasoningMaaike van Roy, KU Leuven
9.45-10.00Oral presentationBFMD: A Full-Match Badminton Dense Dataset for Dense Shot CaptioningNing Ding
10.00-10.15Oral presentationBlurBall: Joint Ball and Motion Blur Estimation for Table Tennis Ball TrackingThomas Gossard
10.15-10.30Oral presentationBeyond Pedestrians: Caption-Guided CLIP Framework for High-Difficulty Video-based Person Re-IdentificationShogo Hamano
10.30-10.50Coffee break
10.50-11.30Invited talkWhen Sports CV Leaves the Lab: Lessons on Bridging Academia and IndustryAtom Scott, Playbox Inc
11.30-11.45Oral presentationGame Context-Aware 3D Human Mesh Recovery in Ice HockeyZhibo Wang
11.45-12.00Oral presentationTransition-Constrained Sequence Modeling for Fine-Grained Skating Action RecognitionMaria Koshkina
12.00-13.10Lunch break
13.10-13.50Invited talkFrom Tracking to Understanding: The Next Decade of Computer Vision in SportsChristina Chase, MIT
13.50-14.20Poster spotlights1.5 min. eachSee table below for paper titles
14.20-15.55Poster session + coffeePoster boards 81-94 in Exhibit Hall ASee table below
16.00-16.40Invited talkFIFA Research – Case Studies and Research HighlightsJohsan Billingham, FIFA
16.40-17.15SoccerNetResults and talks from SoccerNet challenges 2026SoccerNet organizers and authors
17.15-17.30Best paper award and closing remarksBest paper award sponsored by FIFACVsports organizers

Accepted peer-reviewed papers:

NB: Each poster board is shared by two posters.

Graph-based Association for Multi-View Multiple Player 3D Tracking in Volleyball VideosYu-Hsiang Chen, Wei-Ta Chu, Takeo KanadePoster #81 + spotlight
Pole-Arina: A Privacy-Preserving Dataset and Benchmark for Static Pole TricksDiana Marin, Katharina Scheucher, Peter KánPoster #81 + spotlight
BFMD: A Full-Match Badminton Dense Dataset for Dense Shot CaptioningNing Ding, Keisuke Fujii, Toru TamakiOral + poster #82
BlurBall: Joint Ball and Motion Blur Estimation for Table Tennis Ball TrackingThomas Gossard, Andreas Ziegler, Filip Radovic, Andreas ZellOral + poster #82
BST: Badminton Stroke-type Transformer for Skeleton-based Action Recognition in Racket SportsJing-Yuan ChangPoster #83 + spotlight
Beyond Pedestrians: Caption-Guided CLIP Framework for High-Difficulty Video-based Person Re-IdentificationShogo Hamano, Shunya Wakasugi, Tatsuhito Sato, Sayaka NakamuraOral + poster #83
GRAZE: Grounded Refinement and Motion-Aware Zero-Shot Event LocalizationSyed Ahsan Masud Zaidi, Lior Shamir, William Hsu, Scott Dietrich, Talha ZaidiPoster #84 + spotlight
PlayGen-MoG: Framework for Diverse Multi-Agent Play Generation via Mixture-of-Gaussians Trajectory PredictionKevin Changhun SongPoster #84 + spotlight
Pixels or Positions? Benchmarking Modalities in Group Activity RecognitionDrishya Karki, Merey Ramazanova, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard GhanemPoster #85 + spotlight
LTPI: A Benchmark for Long-term Player Identification from Single-Camera Football VideoMurad Dusov, Vasiliy Chelpanov, Andrey Sakhovskiy, Vadim Linkov, Oleg Durygin, Mikhail Moiseev, Isupov Matvey, Konstantin Mitin, Semen BudennyyPoster #85 + spotlight
SetPieceRAG: Domain-Specific RAG for Knowledge-Intensive Soccer VQA with Large Language ModelsYoungseon Kim, Jongmin LeePoster #86 + spotlight
3D Reconstruction of American Football Game Situations from Handheld Monocular VideoKanta Sawafuji, Rintaro Otsubo, Dan Mikami, Hideo SaitoPoster #86 + spotlight
SAMIDARE: Advanced Tracking-by-Segmentation for Dense ScenariosShozaburo Hirano, Norimichi UkitaPoster #87 + spotlight
Direct Measurement of Human Joint Positions under Clothing using Coaxial RGB–Infrared ImagingDaishi Kitano, Seiji Matsumura, Naoki Saijo, Makio Kashino, Dan MikamiPoster # 87 + spotlight
CADDIE: Compact Adaptive Detection-Driven Inference for Real-Time Golf Club Pose EstimationChangsoo Jung, Fan Yang, Nathaniel Blanchard, Hon Yung WongPoster #88 + spotlight
Unified Sports Field Registration with Lens Distortion ModelingJonas Theiner, Eric Müller-Budack, Ralph EwerthPoster #88 + spotlight
Monte Carlo Pass Search: Using Trajectory Generation for 3D Counterfactual Pass Evaluation in FootballAndrew Kang, Priya NarasimhanPoster #89 + spotlight
Non-Intrusive Monocular 3D Ball Tracking via Infrared Shadow Geometry for Practical Sports ApplicationsHiro Horino, Daishi Kitano, Dan MikamiPoster #89 + spotlight
CausalMAT: Counterfactual Trajectory Reasoning in Multi-Agent SportsBen JenkinsPoster #90 + spotlight
Physics-Based 3D Ball Trajectory Reconstruction from Monocular Soccer Video: A Multi-Model BenchmarkŁukasz Grad, Krzysztof M. Czajkowski, Aliaksandr VarashylauPoster #90 + spotlight
Towards Athlete Fatigue Assessment from Association Football VideosXavier Bou, Nathan Correger, Alexandre Cloots, Gavage Cédric, Silvio Giancola, Cédric Schwartz, François Delvaux, Rudi Cloots, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Anthony CioppaPoster #91 + spotlight
Scalable Injury-Risk Screening in Baseball Pitching From Broadcast VideoJerrin Bright, Justin Mende, John S. ZelekPoster #92 + spotlight
Interpretable Pre-Release Baseball Pitch Type Anticipation from Broadcast 3D KinematicsJerrin Bright, Michelle Lu, John S. ZelekPoster #92 + spotlight
Game Context-Aware 3D Human Mesh Recovery in Ice HockeyZhibo Wang, Amir Nazemi, Sirisha Rambhatla, Yuhao Chen, David A. ClausiOral + poster #91
Transition-Constrained Sequence Modeling for Fine-Grained Skating Action RecognitionMaria Koshkina, Tanmay Pilla, Amir Nazemi, Yuhao Chen, John S. Zelek, David A. ClausiOral + poster #93

Nectar track posters – papers accepted for CVPR main conference:

SkillSight: Efficient First-Person Skill Assessment with GazeChi Hsuan Wu, Kumar Ashutosh, Kristen GraumanPoster #93
AdaSpot: Spend Resolution Where It Matters for Precise Event SpottingArtur Xarles, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund, Albert ClapésPoster #94
VideoNet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Domain-Specific Action RecognitionTanush Yadav, Reza Salehi, Jae Sung Park, Vivek Ramanujan, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Yejin Choi, Ali Farhadi, Rohun Tripathi, Ranjay KrishnaPoster #94