ACM MMSports 2026

9^th Int. ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports

Nov 10th^th, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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at ACM Multimedia 2026

Nov 10 – Nov 14, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Program (Nov 10th, 2026) - Oceania IX

Starting with the event date, the proceedings material will be available in the ACM DL.
We have assigned 15 minutes 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. Every paper will also be presented at the poster session. 10.1145/3767308.3842126

Session 1: Analyses of Team Sports

Session Chair: Daniel Kienzle (University of Augsburg)

Time slot	Talk
09:00 - 09:15	Opening + Welcome Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg)
09:15 - 09:30	A Lightweight Tracking-Based Motion Stream for Hockey Skating Action Recognition Maria Koshkina (University of Waterloo), Yuhao Chen (University of Waterloo), John Zelek (University of Waterloo), David Anthony Clausi (University of Waterloo)
09:30 - 09:45	PoseConvSpot: Overcoming Domain Shifts in Precise Event Spotting for Sports Videos via Pose-Only Spatio-Temporal Regression Noâm Boussouf (Keio University, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Adrien Maglo (CEA), Mohamed Chaouch (CEA), Paul Pham Dang (Keio University, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hideo Saito (Keio University)
09:45 - 10:00	Context-Aware Semi-Supervised Classification of Defensive Screen Coverage in Professional Basketball Takumi Sato (Hosei University), Qian Wu (Hosei University), Atsushi Kanai (Hosei University)
10:00 - 10:15	Audio for Sports Highlight Detection: A Comparative Empirical Study Hao Xu (Deakin University), Meenakshi Sarkar (Indian Institute of Science), Vishnu Raj (Dolby), David Gunawan (Dolby)
10:15 - 10:30	SportVISTA: Scaling Multimodal Audio-Visual Representation Learning to Amateur and Semi-Professional Sports Videos Lazhar Bouacha (Université Paris Cité), Laurent Wendling (Université Paris Cité), Camille Kurtz (Université Paris Cité)

10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break

Session 2: Analyses in Individual Sports and Two-Player Games

Session Chair: Noâm Boussouf (Keio University, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Time slot	Talk
11:00 - 11:15	CanonFuse3D: Human-Centric Canonical Fusion for Calibration-Free Dual-View 3D Pose Estimation in Skiing Videos Kaixu Chen (Tsukuba University, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Nan Luo (University of Tsukuba), Toshitaka Kimura (NTT ), Eiichi Naito (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Chun Xie (University of Tsukuba), Itaru Kitahara (The University of Tsukuba)
11:15 - 11:30	Event Detection in Table Tennis Videos using 2D Keypoints Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg), Daniel Kienzle (University of Augsburg), Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics), Anastasiia Bilinska (University of Augsburg)
11:30 - 11:45	Estimation of Verticaly Projected Pelvis Position from a Monocular Sports Image through Geometrical-Aware Feature Shunzo Yamagishi (University of Tsukuba), Shuto Ikegami (University of Tsukuba), Chun Xie (University of Tsukuba), Tadahiro Oyama (Kobe City College of Technology), Itaru Kitahara (University of Tsukuba)
11:45 - 12:00	Completing Fine-Grained Combat-Sports Annotations with Model-Assisted Review Pierre Marrec (INRIA), Alexandre Schortgen (INRIA), Lionel Reveret (INRIA)
12:00 - 12:15	BadmintonQA: A Long-Video Question Answering Dataset on Full Badminton Matches Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya University Nagoya Institute of Technology Ning Ding (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University), Toru Tamaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
12:15 - 12:30	Transponder-Cued ROI Selection for Low-Latency Rider Detection in Track Cycling Winter Clinckemaillie (Universiteit Gent), Maarten Slembrouck (Universiteit Gent), Korneel Bovijn (Universiteit Gent), Steven Verstockt (Universiteit Gent)ropolitan University)

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break

Session 3: Analyses of Soccer

Session Chair: Hideo Saito

Time slot	Talk
14:00 - 14:15	TraVIS: Combining Player Tracking and Video for Football Action Spotting Javier García Arias (University of Barcelona), Artur Xarles (Universitat de Barcelona), Arnau Barrera-Roy (Universitat de Barcelona), Sergio Escalera (University of Barcelona), Thomas Moeslund (Aalborg University), Albert Clapés (Universitat de Barcelona)
14:15 - 14:30	FOOTPASS-StyleCaptions: A Multi-Style Soccer Video Captioning Dataset Jion Oshima (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Toru Tamaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Ning Ding (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
14:30 - 14:45	World Models as Data Engines: Annotation-Preserving Synthetic Video for Soccer Athlete Re-Identification Luca Francesco Rossi (Polytechnic Institute of Turin), Andrea Sanna (Polytechnic Institute of Turin), Federico Manuri (Polytechnic Institute of Turin), Mattia Donna Bianco (Netventure)
14:45 - 15:00	BMASH: Ball-Motion-Aware Soccer Header Spotting Ahmed Endris Hasen (University of Jyväskylä), Muhammad Shahzad Khan (University of Jyväskylä), Nikolaos Passalis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Jenni Raitoharju (University of Jyväskylä)
15:00 - 15:15	A Referee That Cannot Repeat Its Call: Decomposing Vision-Language Model Instability in Football Officiating Filip Noworolnik (AGH University of Science and Technology), Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska (AGH University of Science and Technology)

15:15 - 16:00	Coffee Break

Session 4: Poster Session