RoboCup has always been a scenario to develop systems that solve real-world problems. Driven by the main goal of playing against the 2050 FIFA World Cup champions, the RoboCup Soccer leagues need to constantly measure how the research community is progressing.
arXiv:2606. 28570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Athlete assessment is a critical process for tracking physical progress and identifying elite talent.
arXiv:2602. 12080v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite recent advances in AI, event data collection in soccer still relies heavily on labor-intensive manual annotation.
arXiv:2608. 19723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming video understanding requires models to causally update state as video arrives and organize growing history into semantic units that can evolve, persist, and be recalled under bounded computation and memory.
arXiv:2609.39300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in computer vision have made broadcast sports videos increasingly useful for event analysis, performance assessment, and player-safety...
arXiv:2608. 20087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in real-world ball sports.
The paper introduces the Semantic Action Graph, a lightweight domain schema that models a sports match using performer, action, recipient, moment, and state nodes linked by role, temporal, and outcome edges. This structure supports both an agentic pipeline for generating narrated highlights and a visual interface that lets viewers query and inspect the same representation. In a prototype called SportSAGE, 12 soccer fans reported satisfaction with the generated highlights and used the graph interface to search, navigate, and interpret match moments.
arXiv:2608. 19646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual understanding in sports has emerged as a hot topic in computer vision in recent years.
The paper introduces Temporally-Grounded Language Generation (TGLG), a benchmark that tests vision‑language models on their ability to produce semantically accurate and temporally precise utterances in real‑time settings. It identifies perceptual updating and contingency awareness as key capabilities, curates datasets from sports broadcasting and egocentric interactions, and proposes the TRACE metric to jointly evaluate semantic similarity and temporal alignment. The authors also present VLM‑TSI, a model that interleaves visual and linguistic tokens in a time‑synchronized manner, achieving better performance than a strong baseline yet still showing modest overall results, underscoring the challenge of real‑time VLMs.
This paper presents our solution to the 2026 SoccerNet VQA Challenge. We first develop a cost-effective data synthesis pipeline driven by a Vision-Language Model (VLM), which systematically restructures raw domain data into diverse VQA samples, including concise answers and long-form responses.
arXiv:2608.09200v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Live basketball commentary generation requires determining when an event is sufficiently observable and describing it before subsequent events unfo...
arXiv:2608. 07932v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sports video analysis is crucial for athletic analytics and broadcasting enhancement.
arXiv:2607. 18084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.