ACM MMSports 2025

8th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports
Tuesday, Oct 28th, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland

at ACM Multimedia 2025

Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland

Program (Tuesday Oct 28, 2025)

Starting with the event date, the proceedings material will be available in the ACM DL.
We have assigned a 15 minute slot to every regular paper. Plan to present for 12 minutes and allow 3 minutes questions and answers (Q&A). The slide aspect ratio for your presentation should be set to 16:9. You should adhere strictly to the 12 minutes as we will cut off your presentation after 12 minutes no matter where you are in your presentation.

Session 1: Analyses in Sports

Session Chair: Rainer Lienhart
Time slot Talk
08:50 - 09:00 Opening + Welcome
Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg)
09:00 - 09:15 Real-Time Ball Tracking and Action Classification using an Event Camera
Momoe Yamane(Keio University), Masahiro Yamaguchi(NEC Corporation), Kyota Higa(NEC Corporation), Ryo fujiwara(NEC Corporation), Hideo Saito (Keio University)
09:15 - 09:30 AthleticsPose: Authentic Sports Motion Dataset on Athletic Field and Evaluation of Monocular 3D Pose Estimation Ability
Tomohiro Suzuki(Nagoya University), Ryota Tanaka(Nagoya University), Calvin C. K. Yeung(Nagoya University), Keisuke Fujii(Nagoya University)
09:30 - 09:45 Towards Robust Identity Incorporation in Sports Video Captioning Systems
Karol Wojtulewicz(Linköping University), Niklas Carlsson(Linköping University)
09:45 - 10:00 Single-anchored Multi-modal Dense Video Captioning for Esports Broadcasts Commentaries
Ari Yu(University of Science and Technology), Jinwoo Hyun(Institute for Basic Science), Hyeong-Gyu Jang (University of Science and Technology), Sung-Yun Park(University of Science and Technology), Sang-Kwang Lee(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
10:00 - 10:15 SkiTechCoach: A Multimodal Alpine Skiing Dataset with 3D Body Pose, Sole Pressure, and Expert Coaching
Toshihiro Hirano (Institute of Science Tokyo), Yuki Tabei (Institute of Science Tokyo), Yichen Peng (Institute of Science Tokyo), Chen-Chieh Liao (Institute of Science Tokyo), Erwin Wu (Institute of Science Tokyo), Hideki Koike (Institute of Science Tokyo)
10:15 - 10:30 Commentary Master: Exploring Fine-grained Video Action Commentary
Sifan Zhang (Dalian University of Technology), Bingcheng Dong (Dalian University of Technology), Yuning Ding (Dalian University of Technology), Jinrong Zhang (Dalian University of Technology), Qiang Gao (Wuhan University), Shenglan Liu (Dalian University of Technology), Tao Sun (Dalian University of Technology)
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

Session 2: Analyses in Team Sports

Session Chair: Hideo Saito
Time slot Talk
11:00 - 11:15 Player Image Pre-trained Vision Transformer for Rugby Scene Classification
Naoki Nonaka (Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN), Toshiki Koshiba (Advanced Data Science Project, RIKEN), Ryo Fujihira (Advanced Data Science Project, RIKEN), Akira Maeda (Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN), Jun Seita (Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN)
11:15 - 11:30 BasketLiDAR: The First LiDAR-Camera Multimodal Dataset for Professional Basketball MOT
Ryunosuke Hayashi (Keio University), Kohei Torimi (Keio University), Rokuto Nagata (Keio University), Kazuma Ikeda (Keio University), Ozora Sako (Keio University), Taichi Nakamura (AISIN CORPORATION), Masaki Tani (AISIN Corporation), Yoshimitsu Aoki (Keio University), Kentaro Yoshioka (Keio University)
11:30 - 11:45 Improved Rugby Ball Behavior Model for Kick-pass Simulation Using Beta and von Mises–Fisher Distributions
Yu Tokutake (Meiji University), Kotaro Yashiro (Meiji University), Yohei Nakada (Meiji University)
11:45 - 12:00 KASportsFormer: Kinematic Anatomy Enhanced Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation on Short Sports Scene Video
Zhuoer Yin (Nagoya University), Calvin Yeung (Nagoya University), Tomohiro Suzuki (Nagoya University), Ryota Tanaka (Nagoya University), Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University)
12:00 - 12:15 Shot2Tactic-Caption: Multi-Scale Captioning of Badminton Videos for Tactical Understanding
Ning Ding (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University), Toru Tamaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
12:15 - 12:30 Oriented Racket Database (ORDB): An Annotated Dataset for Rotated Racket Detection in Badminton
Muhammad Abdul Haq (Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Department of Information Technology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta), Shu Xinqi (Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Turrnum Shahzadi (Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Botao Zhang (Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Shuhei Tarashima (Innovation Center, NTT Communcations), Norio Tagawa (Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

Session 3: Analyses in Team Sports 2

Session Chair: Hideo Saito
Time slot Talk
13:30 - 13:45 SoccerHigh: A Benchmark Dataset for Automatic Soccer Video Summarization
Artur Díaz-Juan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Coloma Ballester (University Pompeu Fabra), Gloria Haro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
13:45 - 14:00 Improved Method for Evaluating Defensive Player Movements via Geometric Formation Features in Soccer
Kento Osawa (Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University), Yohei Nakada (Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University)
14:00 - 14:15 Players Tracking and Identification for Minimap Generation in American Football
Rintaro Otsubo (Keio University), Kazami Ishii (Keio University), Hideo Saito (Keio University)
14:15 - 14:30 Hand Held Multi-Object Tracking Dataset in American Football
Rintaro Otsubo (Keio University), Kanta Sawafuji (Keio University), Hideo Saito (Keio University)
14:30 - 14:45 Semi-Automatic Estimation of Body Orientation in Football
Sobhaan ul Husan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Mauricio Verano Merino (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Elixabete Sarasola Nieto (Vantage)
14:45 - 15:00 TrackID3x3: A Dataset and Algorithm for Multi-Player Tracking with Identification and Pose Estimation in 3x3 Basketball Full-court Videos
Kazuhiro Yamada (Nagoya University), Li Yin (Nagoya University), Qingrui Hu (Nagoya University), Ning Ding (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Shunsuke Iwashita (Nagoya University), Jun Ichikawa (Shizuoka University), Kiwamu Kotani (Ryutsu Keizai University), Calvin Yeung (Nagoya University), Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University)
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea

Session 4: SoccerTrack Challenge 2025

Session Chairs: Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University)
Time slot Talk
15:30 - 15:45 Announcements of the Winners of the SoccerTrack Challenge 2025
Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University)
15:45 - 16:15 Spotlight presentations of 1st and 3rd place winners

GTATrack: Winner Solution to SoccerTrack 2025 with Deep-EIoU and Global Tracklet Association
Rong-Lin Jian (Institute of Intelligent Systems College of AI, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Ming-Chi Luo (Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Cheng-Wei Huang (Master Program in Remote Sensing Science and Technology, National Central University), Chia-Ming Lee (Institute of Data Science, National Cheng Kung University), Yu-Fan Lin (Miin Wu School of Computing, National Cheng Kung University), Chih-Chung Hsu (Institute of Intelligent Systems, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Soccer Player Tracking Using Multiple Features for ID Switch Correction in Fixed-View Videos
Yuki Mori (Nagoya University), Shun Takagi (Nagoya University), Shin Katayama (Nagoya University), Kenta Urano (Nagoya University), Takuro Yonezawa (Nagoya University), Nobuo Kawaguchi (Nagoya University)