CVPR 2026 Open Access Repository

12th IEEE International Workshop on Computer Vision in Sports

Game Context-Aware 3D Human Mesh Recovery in Ice Hockey: Zhibo Wang,

Amir Nazemi,

Sirisha Rambhatla,

Yuhao Chen,

David Clausi; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2026_CVPR, author = {Wang, Zhibo and Nazemi, Amir and Rambhatla, Sirisha and Chen, Yuhao and Clausi, David}, title = {Game Context-Aware 3D Human Mesh Recovery in Ice Hockey}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10077-10086} }
CADDIE: Compact Adaptive Detection-Driven Inference for Real-Time Golf Club Pose Estimation: Changsoo Jung,

Fan Yang,

Nathaniel Blanchard,

HonYung Wong; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Jung_2026_CVPR, author = {Jung, Changsoo and Yang, Fan and Blanchard, Nathaniel and Wong, HonYung}, title = {CADDIE: Compact Adaptive Detection-Driven Inference for Real-Time Golf Club Pose Estimation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9978-9987} }
BlurBall: Joint Ball and Motion Blur Estimation for Table Tennis Ball Tracking: Thomas Gossard,

Filip Radovic,

Andreas Ziegler,

Andreas Zell; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Gossard_2026_CVPR, author = {Gossard, Thomas and Radovic, Filip and Ziegler, Andreas and Zell, Andreas}, title = {BlurBall: Joint Ball and Motion Blur Estimation for Table Tennis Ball Tracking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9930-9939} }
LTPI: A Benchmark for Long-term Player Identification from Single-Camera Football Video: Murad Dusov,

Vasiliy Chelpanov,

Andrey Sakhovskiy,

Vadim Linkov,

Oleg Durygin,

Mikhail Moiseev,

Matvey Isupov,

Konstantin Mitin,

Semen Budennyy; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Dusov_2026_CVPR, author = {Dusov, Murad and Chelpanov, Vasiliy and Sakhovskiy, Andrey and Linkov, Vadim and Durygin, Oleg and Moiseev, Mikhail and Isupov, Matvey and Mitin, Konstantin and Budennyy, Semen}, title = {LTPI: A Benchmark for Long-term Player Identification from Single-Camera Football Video}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9919-9929} }
Towards Athlete Fatigue Assessment from Association Football Videos: Xavier Bou,

Nathan Correger,

Alexandre Cloots,

Cédric Gavage,

Silvio Giancola,

Cédric Schwartz,

François Delvaux,

Rudi Cloots,

Marc Van Droogenbroeck,

Anthony Cioppa; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Bou_2026_CVPR, author = {Bou, Xavier and Correger, Nathan and Cloots, Alexandre and Gavage, C\'edric and Giancola, Silvio and Schwartz, C\'edric and Delvaux, Fran\c{c}ois and Cloots, Rudi and Van Droogenbroeck, Marc and Cioppa, Anthony}, title = {Towards Athlete Fatigue Assessment from Association Football Videos}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9856-9868} }
3D Reconstruction of American Football Game Situations from Handheld Monocular Video: Kanta Sawafuji,

Rintaro Otsubo,

Dan Mikami,

Hideo Saito; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Sawafuji_2026_CVPR, author = {Sawafuji, Kanta and Otsubo, Rintaro and Mikami, Dan and Saito, Hideo}, title = {3D Reconstruction of American Football Game Situations from Handheld Monocular Video}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10048-10057} }
Direct Measurement of Human Joint Positions under Clothing using Coaxial RGB-Infrared Imaging: Daishi Kitano,

Seiji Matsumura,

Naoki Saijo,

Makio Kashino,

Dan Mikami; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kitano_2026_CVPR, author = {Kitano, Daishi and Matsumura, Seiji and Saijo, Naoki and Kashino, Makio and Mikami, Dan}, title = {Direct Measurement of Human Joint Positions under Clothing using Coaxial RGB-Infrared Imaging}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10019-10027} }
BFMD: A Full-Match Badminton Dense Dataset for Dense Shot Captioning: Ning Ding,

Keisuke Fujii,

Toru Tamaki; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ding_2026_CVPR, author = {Ding, Ning and Fujii, Keisuke and Tamaki, Toru}, title = {BFMD: A Full-Match Badminton Dense Dataset for Dense Shot Captioning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9909-9918} }
PlayGen-MoG: Framework for Diverse Multi-Agent Play Generation via Mixture-of-Gaussians Trajectory Prediction: Kevin Song; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Song_2026_CVPR, author = {Song, Kevin}, title = {PlayGen-MoG: Framework for Diverse Multi-Agent Play Generation via Mixture-of-Gaussians Trajectory Prediction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10058-10066} }
SAMIDARE: Advanced Tracking-by-Segmentation for Dense Scenarios: Shozaburo Hirano,

Norimichi Ukita; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Hirano_2026_CVPR, author = {Hirano, Shozaburo and Ukita, Norimichi}, title = {SAMIDARE: Advanced Tracking-by-Segmentation for Dense Scenarios}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9960-9968} }
Non-Intrusive Monocular 3D Ball Tracking via Infrared Shadow Geometry for Practical Sports Applications: Hiro Horino,

Daishi Kitano,

Dan Mikami; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Horino_2026_CVPR, author = {Horino, Hiro and Kitano, Daishi and Mikami, Dan}, title = {Non-Intrusive Monocular 3D Ball Tracking via Infrared Shadow Geometry for Practical Sports Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9969-9977} }
Beyond Pedestrians: Caption-Guided CLIP Framework for High-Difficulty Video-based Person Re-Identification: Shogo Hamano,

Shunya Wakasugi,

Tatsuhito Sato,

Sayaka Nakamura; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Hamano_2026_CVPR, author = {Hamano, Shogo and Wakasugi, Shunya and Sato, Tatsuhito and Nakamura, Sayaka}, title = {Beyond Pedestrians: Caption-Guided CLIP Framework for High-Difficulty Video-based Person Re-Identification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9949-9959} }
Scalable Injury-Risk Screening in Baseball Pitching From Broadcast Video: Jerrin Bright,

Justin Mende,

John Zelek; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Bright_2026_CVPR, author = {Bright, Jerrin and Mende, Justin and Zelek, John}, title = {Scalable Injury-Risk Screening in Baseball Pitching From Broadcast Video}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9879-9888} }
Monte Carlo Pass Search: Using Trajectory Generation for 3D Counterfactual Pass Evaluation in Football: Andrew Kang,

Priya Narasimhan; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kang_2026_CVPR, author = {Kang, Andrew and Narasimhan, Priya}, title = {Monte Carlo Pass Search: Using Trajectory Generation for 3D Counterfactual Pass Evaluation in Football}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9988-9997} }
Transition-Constrained Sequence Modeling for Fine-Grained Skating Action Recognition: Maria Koshkina,

Tanmay Pilla,

Amir Nazemi,

Yuhao Chen,

John S. Zelek,

David A Clausi; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Koshkina_2026_CVPR, author = {Koshkina, Maria and Pilla, Tanmay and Nazemi, Amir and Chen, Yuhao and Zelek, John S. and A Clausi, David}, title = {Transition-Constrained Sequence Modeling for Fine-Grained Skating Action Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10028-10037} }
Pixels or Positions? Benchmarking Modalities in Group Activity Recognition: Drishya Karki,

Merey Ramazanova,

Anthony Cioppa,

Silvio Giancola,

Bernard Ghanem; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Karki_2026_CVPR, author = {Karki, Drishya and Ramazanova, Merey and Cioppa, Anthony and Giancola, Silvio and Ghanem, Bernard}, title = {Pixels or Positions? Benchmarking Modalities in Group Activity Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9998-10008} }
Physics-Based 3D Ball Trajectory Reconstruction from Monocular Soccer Video: A Multi-Model Benchmark: Lukasz Grad,

Krzysztof M Czajkowski,

Aliaksandr Varashylau; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Grad_2026_CVPR, author = {Grad, Lukasz and Czajkowski, Krzysztof M and Varashylau, Aliaksandr}, title = {Physics-Based 3D Ball Trajectory Reconstruction from Monocular Soccer Video: A Multi-Model Benchmark}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9940-9948} }
Graph-based Association for Multi-View Multiple Player 3D Tracking in Volleyball Videos: Yu-Hsiang Chen,

Wei-Ta Chu,

Takeo Kanade; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Chen_2026_CVPR, author = {Chen, Yu-Hsiang and Chu, Wei-Ta and Kanade, Takeo}, title = {Graph-based Association for Multi-View Multiple Player 3D Tracking in Volleyball Videos}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9899-9908} }
BST: Badminton Stroke-type Transformer for Skeleton-based Action Recognition in Racket Sports: Jing-Yuan Chang; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Chang_2026_CVPR, author = {Chang, Jing-Yuan}, title = {BST: Badminton Stroke-type Transformer for Skeleton-based Action Recognition in Racket Sports}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9889-9898} }
Interpretable Pre-Release Baseball Pitch Type Anticipation from Broadcast 3D Kinematics: Jerrin Bright,

Michelle Lu,

John Zelek; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Bright_2026_CVPR, author = {Bright, Jerrin and Lu, Michelle and Zelek, John}, title = {Interpretable Pre-Release Baseball Pitch Type Anticipation from Broadcast 3D Kinematics}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9869-9878} }
GRAZE: Grounded Refinement and Motion-Aware Zero-Shot Event Localization: Syed Ahsan Masud Zaidi,

Lior Shamir,

William Hsu,

Scott Dietrich,

Talha Zaidi; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Zaidi_2026_CVPR, author = {Zaidi, Syed Ahsan Masud and Shamir, Lior and Hsu, William and Dietrich, Scott and Zaidi, Talha}, title = {GRAZE: Grounded Refinement and Motion-Aware Zero-Shot Event Localization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10087-10095} }
Unified Sports Field Registration with Lens Distortion Modeling: Jonas Theiner,

Eric Müller-Budack,

Ralph Ewerth; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Theiner_2026_CVPR, author = {Theiner, Jonas and M\"uller-Budack, Eric and Ewerth, Ralph}, title = {Unified Sports Field Registration with Lens Distortion Modeling}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10067-10076} }
SetPieceRAG: Domain-Specific RAG for Knowledge-Intensive Soccer VQA with Large Language Models: Youngseon Kim,

Jongmin Lee; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kim_2026_CVPR, author = {Kim, Youngseon and Lee, Jongmin}, title = {SetPieceRAG: Domain-Specific RAG for Knowledge-Intensive Soccer VQA with Large Language Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10009-10018} }
Pole-Arina: A Privacy-Preserving Dataset and Benchmark for Static Pole Tricks: Diana Marin,

Katharina Scheucher,

Peter Kán; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Marin_2026_CVPR, author = {Marin, Diana and Scheucher, Katharina and K\'an, Peter}, title = {Pole-Arina: A Privacy-Preserving Dataset and Benchmark for Static Pole Tricks}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {10038-10047} }