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:                           11 July 2025 
Acceptance Notification:                1 August 2025
Camera Ready Submission:         11 August 2025 
Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 27th or Oct 28th, 2025

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