8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports Call for Papers

Call for Papers

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8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports
(MMSports'25) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 27 - Oct 31, 2025, Dublin, Ireland

 

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper for the 8th International
Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in
Dublin, Ireland together with ACM Multimedia 2025. The ambition of
this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from
many different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current
multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome
multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice
contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited
to) topics:

- annotation and indexing in sports 

- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

- 3D scene and motion reconstruction in sports

- event detection and indexing in sports

- performance assessment in sports

- injury analysis and prevention in sports

- data driven analysis in sports

- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

- automated training assistance in sports

- camera pose and motion tracking in sports

- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

- datasets in sports

- graphical effects in sports

- alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum)

- multimodal perception in sports

- exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports

- sports knowledge discovery

- narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports

- mobile sports application

- multimedia in sports beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data

 

Submissions can be of varying length from 6 to 8 pages, plus up to two
pages for the references. There is no distinction between long and
short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate
length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process
with the same review period.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 
http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/index.html
 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                        16 July 2025 

Acceptance Notification:                24 July 2025

Camera Ready Submission:         26 August 2025 

Workshop Date:               TBA; either Oct 27th or Oct 28th, 2025


Challenges

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Once again, MMSports is running a competition that challenges
participants to solve a cutting-edge problem applied to real-world
sport-specific data. This year's challenge is "SoccerTrack
Challenge 2025: Tracking and Identifying Soccer Players in Fixed
Viewpoint Video". It is a competition designed to advance the
tracking and identification of soccer players in fixed viewpoint video
footage. Participants will be provided with a dataset of match footage
annotated with bounding boxes and player IDs for training. During the
test phase and the final challenge phase, participants will be given
unseen match footage in which they must perform player identification
and tracking and submit their results. The ranking will be based on
the performance of the tracking models on this unseen data. Also the
1st, 2nd and 3rd place will also be awarded with 150,000 JPY, 60,000
JPY and 30,000 JPY, respectively. More information on the challenges
can be found at
http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/challenge.html.

 

ACM MMSports’25 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito