ACM MMSports 2025
8th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports
Oct 27th or 28th, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland
at ACM Multimedia 2025
Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland
SoccerTrack Challenge 2025
Since 2022 MMSports hosts a competition. This years’s competition is
SoccerTrack Challenge 2025:
Tracking and Identifying Soccer Players in Fixed Viewpoint Video.
It is a competition designed to advance the tracking of soccer players in fixed-viewpoint video footage. Participants will be provided with a dataset containing match footage annotated with bounding boxes and player IDs for training.
During the test phase and the final challenge phase, participants will be given unseen match footage, where they must perform player tracking and submit their results. The ranking will be determined based on the performance of their tracking models on this unseen data.
Prizes (RDDJ Awards):
- 1st Place: 150,000 JPY
- 2nd Place: 60,000 JPY
- 3rd Place: 30,000 JPY
Key differences to similar competitions are that while competitions such as SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction 2024/2025 and SoccerNet Tracking 2022/2023 focus on tracking from broadcast footage, the SoccerTrack Challenge 2025 utilizes fixed-viewpoint video. This introduces unique challenges, as players appear smaller, and the number of visible players is higher compared to broadcast footage. For this competition, we will use a dataset consisting of 10 soccer matches captured from a fixed viewpoint. This setup presents a new and more challenging task for participant teams, pushing the boundaries of player tracking in non-broadcast soccer footage such as non-elite sports teams.
Detailed information: https://sites.google.com/g.sp.m.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/stc2025
Organizer: Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya
University), Li Yin (Nagoya University), Qingrui Hu (Nagoya University)
Sponsor: Red Dot Drone Japan, Hierarchical
Bio-Navigation (A research project of The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
SoccerTrack projects:
- SoccerTrack (v1) [Scott et al. 2022, CVSports]
- TeamTrack [Scott et al. 2024, CVSports]
- SoccerTrack (v2: current data): TBD
Challenge Dates
| Subject | Date |
|---|---|
| Competition starts | April 14, 2025 |
| Competition ends | July 10, 2025 |
| MMSport'25 Regular workshop papers submission | July 11, 2025 |
| Extended paper submission deadline for winners | August 1, 2025 |
| Camera ready version for winners | August 11, 2025 |
Note: The submission deadline is at 11:59 p.m. of the stated deadline date Anywhere on Earth.