Soccer

• This dataset was originally introduced by [1] for soccer ball and player tracking from six synchronized videos.
• Since ball annotations provided by [1] are collapsed, new annotations of ball 2D coordinates are provided by [2]
• For sports ball detection and tracking evaluation, the first four video clips are used for training and the remaining two clips are for testing.

[1] T. D’Orazio et al., A Semi-automatic System for Ground Truth Generation of Soccer Video Sequences, in AVSS, 2009.
[2] S. Tarashima et al., Widely Applicable Strong Baseline for Sports Ball Detection and Tracking, in BMVC, 2023.