X-vars: Introducing explainability in football refereeing with multi-modal large language models

J Held, H Itani, A Cioppa, S Giancola… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has led to significant improvements in
automated decision-making. However the increased performance of models often comes at …

Playertv: Advanced player tracking and identification for automatic soccer highlight clips

HM Solberg, MH Sarkhoosh, S Gautam… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the rapidly evolving field of sports analytics, the automation of targeted video processing
is a pivotal advancement. We propose PlayerTV, an innovative framework which harnesses …

AI-Based cropping of soccer videos for different social media representations

MH Sarkhoosh, SMM Dorcheh, C Midoglu… - … on Multimedia Modeling, 2024 - Springer
The process of re-publishing soccer videos on social media often involves labor-intensive
and tedious manual adjustments, particularly when altering aspect ratios while trying to …

The SoccerSum Dataset for Automated Detection, Segmentation, and Tracking of Objects on the Soccer Pitch

MH Sarkhoosh, S Gautam, C Midoglu… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces SoccerSum, a novel dataset aimed at enhancing object detection and
segmentation in video frames depicting the soccer pitch, using footage from the Norwegian …

Multimodal AI-Based Summarization and Storytelling for Soccer on Social Media

MH Sarkhoosh, S Gautam, C Midoglu… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The rapid advancement of technology has been revolutionizing the field of sports media,
where there is a growing need for sophisticated data processing methods. Current …

Towards AI-Powered Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) for Association Football

J Held, A Cioppa, S Giancola, A Hamdi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the past decade, the technology used by referees in football has improved
substantially, enhancing the fairness and accuracy of decisions. This progress has …

AI-Based Cropping of Ice Hockey Videos for Different Social Media Representations

MH Sarkhoosh, SMM Dorcheh, C Midoglu… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sports multimedia is among the most prominent types of content distributed across social
media today, and the retargeting of videos for diverse aspect ratios is essential for a suitable …

TACDEC: Dataset of Tackle Events in Soccer Game Videos

EJ Kassab, HM Solberg, S Gautam, SS Sabet… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces TACDEC, a dataset of tackle events in soccer game videos.
Recognizing the gap in existing open datasets that predominantly focus on official soccer …

SmartCrop-H: AI-Based Cropping of Ice Hockey Videos

M Majidi, MH Sarkhoosh, C Midoglu, SS Sabet… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Sports multimedia plays a central role in captivating audiences on social media platforms.
However, fast-paced sports such as ice hockey pose unique challenges due to their swift …

AI-Based Cropping of Sport Videos Using SmartCrop.

SMM Dorcheh, MH Sarkhoosh… - … Journal of Semantic …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital platforms, the need for optimizing media
representations to cater to various aspect ratios is palpable. In this paper, we pioneer an …