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Action Spotting using Dense Detection Anchors Revisited: Submission to the SoccerNet Challenge 2022

15 Jun 2022arXiv:2206.07846archive 2025-07-28

João V. B. Soares, Avijit Shah

This brief technical report describes our submission to the Action Spotting SoccerNet Challenge 2022. The challenge was part of the CVPR 2022 ActivityNet Workshop. Our submission was based on a recently proposed method which focuses on increasing temporal precision via a densely sampled set of detection anchors. Due to its emphasis on temporal precision, this approach had shown significant improvements in the tight average-mAP metric. Tight average-mAP was used as the evaluation criterion for the challenge, and is defined using small temporal evaluation tolerances, thus being more sensitive to small temporal errors. In order to further improve results, here we introduce small changes in the pre- and post-processing steps, and also combine different input feature types via late fusion. These changes brought improvements that helped us achieve the first place in the challenge and also led to a new state-of-the-art on SoccerNet's test set when using the dataset's standard experimental protocol. This report briefly reviews the action spotting method based on dense detection anchors, then focuses on the modifications introduced for the challenge. We also describe the experimental protocols and training procedures we used, and finally present our results.

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Action Spotting SoccerNet-v2 DenseAnchorsRevisited (Soares et al.) Average-mAP 78.5 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Action Spotting SoccerNet-v2 DenseAnchorsRevisited (Soares et al.) Tight Average-mAP 65.1 #5 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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