November 27th, 2024 
Daniela Lopez de Luise 3nd WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER VISION FOR WINTER SPORTS (CV4WS)
in conjunction with the
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025 (https://wacv2025.thecvf.com/)
WORKSHOP WEBSITE
TOPICS
We invite submissions to our WACV 2025 workshop on computer vision in winter and mountain sports, including disciplines like skiing, bobsleigh, climbing, and downhill biking. These sports capture massive viewership and participation globally, yet pose unique challenges for computer vision due to fast motion, harsh environments, and real-time processing demands.
Our workshop aims to advance visual analysis and enhance spectator experiences through cutting-edge research. Topics of interest include athlete pose estimation, performance analysis, injury prevention, augmented reality for fan engagement, and robust methods for challenging weather conditions. We welcome contributions on algorithmic approaches, fusion of visual data with other sensors, and new datasets/benchmarks in these domains.
Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topic areas:
- Machine learning solutions for video understanding or activity recognition regarding winter and mountain sports
- Pose estimation of athletes
- Evaluation and measurement of athlete performance
- Performance forecasting
- Detection/evaluation/prevention of injuries in winter sports with computer vision
- Crowd and spectators monitoring
- Augmented/virtual reality for winter sports and fan engagement
- Applications of computer vision/AI to winter sports (skiing, ice-hockey, ice-skating, biathlon, bobsleigh, luge, curling, etc.)
- Image/video understanding in winter/harsh weather conditions
- Camera pose estimation in broadcast videos
- Video-based trajectory reconstruction and analysis
- Winter scene reconstruction from images/videos
- Snow/ice measurements and analysis with computer vision
- Real-time processing algorithms
- Fusion of image/video data and other sensor data
- Datasets, benchmarks and annotations of winter sport data
SUBMISSIONS
There are two submission tracks: FULL PAPERS and EXTENDED ABSTRACTS.
Full paper submissions should propose comprehensive and well-validated solutions, and adhere to the guidelines of standard WACV 2025 submissions (max 8 pages + references). Accepted full papers will be published under the WACV 2025 workshop proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.
Extended abstracts should be max 4 pages in length (including tables, figures and references) and can describe novel but not extensively validated ideas, ongoing works, or be recaps of recently published papers (either journal or conference). The accepted abstracts will be published under an arXiv compendium.
All submissions should be compiled for double-blind review, adopt the standard WACV 2025 template (Overleaf template, ZIP Archive), and be submitted via the workshop's CMT platform:
We plan to invite a selection of authors, along with a summary paper featuring submissions to the SkiTB challenge, to contribute to a special issue in a prestigious journal. This special issue will encompass broader topics in sports science and technology.
THE SKITB CHALLENGE
The team at the University of Udine has recently unveiled SkiTB, a large dataset for computer vision research in skiing. For the workshop, such a dataset will be exploited to organize a visual tracking challenge through a dedicated research competition platform (e.g. CodaLab).
Challenge participants will be required to submit a report presenting their solution. A collection of the best reports will be included in a future special issue.
The best performing teams will be invited to present their solutions to the workshop's attendees.
- Opening challenge date: 01 December 2024
- Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2025
- Technical report submission: 07 February 2025
Challenge page:
IMPORTANT DATES
Important dates for full paper submissions:
22 November 2024, 2022 23:59 PST: full paper submission due- 30 November 2024, 2022 23:59 PST: full paper submission due
- December 18, 2024: notification to authors of full paper submissions
- January 10, 2025 23:59 PST: full paper camera-ready papers due
Important dates for extended abstract submissions:
- December 20, 2024 23:59 PST: extended abstract due
- January 10, 2025: notification to authors of extended abstract submissions
- January 31, 2025 23:59 PST: extended abstract camera-ready papers due
Workshop date:
- February 28 or March 3 or 4, 2025
ORGANIZERS
Dr. Niccolò Bisagno, University of Trento, Italy
Dr. Matteo Dunnhofer, University of Udine, Italy
Dr. Katja Ludwig, University of Augsburg, Germany
Prof. Hideki Koike, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Christian Micheloni, University of Udine, Italy
Prof. Nicola Conci, University of Trento, Italy
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