Sports Ball Detection and Tracking

Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

5 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 5 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

Libraries

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

5 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

5 shown of 5 papers with code (5 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• DeepBall: Deep Neural-Network Ball Detector
  19 Feb 2019 3 repositories listed
  The paper describes a deep network based object detector specialized for ball detection in long shot videos.
• Real-time CNN-based Segmentation Architecture for Ball Detection in a Single View Setup
  23 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed
  This paper considers the task of detecting the ball from a single viewpoint in the challenging but common case where the ball interacts frequently with players while being poorly contrasted with respect to the…
• Widely Applicable Strong Baseline for Sports Ball Detection and Tracking
  9 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Experimental results demonstrate that our approach is substantially superior to existing methods on all the sports categories covered by the datasets.
• MonoTrack: Shuttle trajectory reconstruction from monocular badminton video
  4 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  Trajectory estimation is a fundamental component of racket sport analytics, as the trajectory contains information not only about the winning and losing of each point, but also how it was won or lost.
• TrackNetV2: Efficient Shuttlecock Tracking Network
  3 Dec 2020 1 repository listed
  In this work, TrackNetV2 is proposed to improve the performance of TrackNet from various aspects, especially processing speed, prediction accuracy, and GPU memory usage.