arXiv:2608. 07932v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sports video analysis is crucial for athletic analytics and broadcasting enhancement.
By Yizhi Li, Jiawei Jiang, Guanhong Wang, Yingcai Wu, Gaoang Wang
ReText is a method that enhances image-based person re-identification by incorporating textual descriptions into training. The authors augment existing multi-camera datasets with captions generated by a fine‑tuned Vision‑Language Model and train the system on three tasks: Re-ID, image‑text matching, and image reconstruction guided by text. Experiments show that ReText improves generalization across unseen domains and outperforms current state‑of‑the‑art approaches on cross‑domain Re‑ID benchmarks.
By Timur Mamedov, Karina Kvanchiani, Anton Konushin, Vadim Konushin
The paper introduces a video summarization method that fuses facial embeddings, 3D body‑shape features, and visual appearance within a multi‑object tracking framework. By hierarchically assigning identities and using bidirectional anchoring, it robustly recovers trajectories even under heavy occlusion or low visual quality. Keyframes are selected through a multi‑factor weighting scheme that balances biometric clarity, social interaction, and motion dynamics, while Adaptive Non‑Maximum Suppression guarantees temporal diversity, resulting in a compact, identity‑centric summary.
By Milad Mirjalili, Enrique Alegre Guti\'errez, Eduardo Fidalgo Fern\'andez, V\'ictor Gonz\'alez Castro, Roc\'io Alaiz Rodr\'iguez, Manuel Castej\'on Limas
arXiv:2607. 21267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive basketball video understanding requires resolving not only what event occurs, but also who is responsible and when the key evidence appears.
By Yu Zhang, Jiayuan Rao, Haoning Wu, Weidi Xie
TAME is a CLIP‑based framework for Text‑Video Retrieval that incorporates temporal modeling through three key innovations: sparse Mixture‑of‑Experts layers with frame‑consistent routing, Frame‑Temporal tokens that aggregate cross‑frame information, and a Cross‑Temporal Interaction and Aggregation module for refining frame‑wise similarities. These components enable the model to capture both local visual patterns and long‑range temporal dependencies, leading to consistent performance gains over CLIP‑based baselines on multiple TVR benchmarks, including a 4.0 R@1 improvement on MSR‑VTT. The code is publicly available on GitHub.
By Uicheol Jung, Juyoung Hong, Hojung Kwon, Yukyung Choi
arXiv:2607. 17157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to localize multiple objects in videos while preserving their identities over time.
By Yanrong Qin, Xiaoyan Cao, Yao Yao