Publications and communications of Anthony Cioppa

Held, J., Son, S., Vandeghen, R., Rebain, D., Gadelha, M., Zhou, Y., Cioppa, A., Lin, M. C., Van Droogenbroeck, M., & Tagliasacchi, A. (2025). MeshSplatting: Differentiable Rendering with Opaque Meshes. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/338445.

La Rocca, R., Cioppa, A., Ferrarini, E., Höfte, M., Van Droogenbroeck, M., De Pauw, E., Eppe, G., & Quinton, L. (2025). Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Robust Mass Spectrum Classification. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. doi:10.1021/jasms.5c00055

Giancola, S., Cioppa, A., Gutiérrez-Pérez, M., Held, J., Hinojosa, C., Joos, V., Leduc, A., Magera, F., Sanchez, K., Somers, V., Xarles, A., Agudo, A., Alahi, A., Barnich, O., Clapés, A., De Vleeschouwer, C., Escalera, S., Ghanem, B., Moeslund, T. B., ... Ziegler, J. (2025). SoccerNet 2025 Challenges Results. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/335618. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2508.19182

Held, J.* , Vandeghen, R.* , Hamdi, A.* , Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Vedaldi, A., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (13 August 2025). 3D Convex Splatting: Radiance Field Rendering with 3D Smooth Convexes [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), nashville, United States. doi:10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.01990
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Pierard, S., Halin, A., Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (13 August 2025). Foundations of the Theory of Performance-Based Ranking [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). doi:10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.01333

Henry, M., Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2025). LinDeps: A Fine-tuning Free Post-Pruning Method to Remove Layer-Wise Linear Dependencies with Guaranteed Performance Preservation. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/338515.

Dalal, M., Xarles, A., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Van Droogenbroeck, M., Ghanem, B., Clapes, A., Escalera, S., & Moeslund, T. B. (June 2025). Action Anticipation from Soccernet Football Video Broadcasts [Paper presentation]. 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). doi:10.1109/CVPRW67362.2025.00605

Gaspar, V., Cioppa, A., Held, J., Giancola, S., Braham, M., Deliège, A., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2025). An End-To-End Pipeline for Virtual Banner Replacement in Football Broadcasts [Paper presentation]. 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). doi:10.1109/CVPRW67362.2025.00586

Held, J.* , Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S., Almahmoud, E., Collins, K. M., Bhatt, U., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2025). Enhancing Football Refereeing with AI: VARS and X-VARS for Assisted Decision-Making [Paper presentation]. MathSport Conference, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Magera, F., Hoyoux, T., Castin, M., Barnich, O., Cioppa, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2025). Can Geometry Save Central Views for Sports Field Registration? [Paper presentation]. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Nashville, United States - Tennessee. doi:10.1109/cvprw67362.2025.00604

Held, J.* , Vandeghen, R.* , Deliège, A., Hamdi, A., Giancola, S., Cioppa, A., Vedaldi, A., Ghanem, B., Tagliasacchi, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2025). Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/334146.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Pierard, S., Halin, A., Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (07 April 2025). A Universal Framework for Performance Based Ranking Theory Tools and Applications [Poster presentation]. Rising Stars in AI Symposium, Saudi Arabia.

Guidosse, Q.* , Breyne, J.* , Cioppa, A., Maréchal, K., Rubens, U., Van Droogenbroeck, M., & Dufrêne, M. (2025). Combining camera traps and artificial intelligence for monitoring visitor frequencies in natural areas: Lessons from a case study in the Belgian Ardenne. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. doi:10.1016/j.jort.2025.100856
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Held, J., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Hamdi, A., Devue, C., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2025). Towards an AI-Powered Video Assistant Referee System (VARS) for Association Football. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 295-309). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-95911-0_21

Halin, A.* , Pierard, S.* , Vandeghen, R., Gérin, B., Zanella, M., Colot, M., Held, J., Cioppa, A., Jean, E., Bontempi, G., Mahmoudi, S., Macq, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (09 December 2024). Physically Interpretable Probabilistic Domain Characterization [Paper presentation]. First International Workshop on AI-based All-Weather Surveillance System (AWSS), Hanoï, Vietnam.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Halin, A., Pierard, S., Cioppa, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). A Hitchhiker's Guide to Understanding Performances of Two-Class Classifiers. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/325532.

Pierard, S., Halin, A., Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). The Tile: A 2D Map of Ranking Scores for Two-Class Classification. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/325533.

Cioppa, A., Giancola Silvio, & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). Building the largest and most comprehensive open-source dataset and benchmark for sports video analysis [Paper presentation]. ULiège Open Science Day, Liège, Belgium.

Eymaël, A.* , Vandeghen, R.* , Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders. In European Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 348–366). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-73337-6_20
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Giancola, S.* , Cioppa, A.* , Ghanem, B.* , & Van Droogenbroeck, M.*. (2024). Deep learning for action spotting in association football videos. In C. H. Chen, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision in the New AI Era. World Scientific. doi:10.1142/9789819807154_0018
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cantalloube, F., Christiaens, V., Cantero, C., Cioppa, A., Nasedkin, E., Absil, O., Delorme, P., Wang, J.-J., Bonse, J. M., Daglayan, H., Dahlqvist, C.-H., Guyot, N., Juillard, S., Mazoyer, J., Samland, M., Sabalbal, M., Ruffio, J.-B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). Exoplanet imaging data challenge, phase II: comparison of algorithms in terms of characterization capabilities. In K. J. Jackson, D. Schmidt, ... E. Vernet, Adaptive Optics Systems IX (pp. 1309713). Bellingham, United States - Washington: International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). doi:10.1117/12.3020278

Benzakour, Y., Cabado, B., Giancola, S., Cioppa, A., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (08 July 2024). OSL-ActionSpotting: A Unified Library for Action Spotting in Sports Videos [Paper presentation]. International Workshop on Sport, Technology and Research (STAR), Lecco, Italy. doi:10.1109/star62027.2024.10635981

Deckyvere, A., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (08 July 2024). Investigating Event-Based Cameras for Video Frame Interpolation in Sports [Paper presentation]. International Workshop on Sport, Technology and Research (STAR), Lecco, Italy. doi:10.1109/star62027.2024.10635973

Cabado, B., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Villa, A., Guijarro-Berdiñas, B., Padròn, E. J., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (18 June 2024). Beyond the Premier: Assessing Action Spotting Transfer Capability Across Diverse Domains [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports, Seattle, United States. doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00343

Gérin, B.* , Halin, A.* , Cioppa, A.* , Henry, M., Ghanem, B., Macq, B., De Vleeschouwer, C., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2024). Multi-Stream Cellular Test-Time Adaptation of Real-Time Models Evolving in Dynamic Environments [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), WAD, Seattle, United States. doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00450
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Held, J., Itani, H., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2024). X-VARS: Introducing Explainability in Football Refereeing with Multi-Modal Large Language Models [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports. doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00332

Leduc, A., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2024). SoccerNet-Depth: a Scalable Dataset for Monocular Depth Estimation in Sports Videos [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports. doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00333

Somers, V.* , Joos, V.* , Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Ghasemzadeh, S. A., Magera, F., Standaert, B., Mansourian, A. M., Zhou, X., Kasaei, S., Ghanem, B., Alahi, A., Van Droogenbroeck, M., & De Vleeschouwer, C. (June 2024). SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction: End-to-End Athlete Tracking and Identification on a Minimap [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). doi:10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00334
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Halin, A.* , Pierard, S.* , Vandeghen, R., Gérin, B., Zanella, M., Colot, M., Held, J., Cioppa, A., Jean, E., Bontempi, G., Mahmoudi, S., Macq, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). Physically Interpretable Probabilistic Domain Characterization. In Proceedings of ACCV 2024. The Computer Vision Foundation (CVF). doi:10.1007/978-981-96-2641-0_2
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Somers, V., Magera, F., Zhou, X., Mkhallati, H., Deliège, A., Held, J., Hinojosa, C., Mansourian, A. M., Miralles, P., Barnich, O., De Vleeschouwer, C., Alahi, A., Ghanem, B., Van Droogenbroeck, M., Kamal, A., Maglo, A., Clapés, A., ... Meng, Z. (2023). SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Results. Sports Engineering. doi:10.1007/s12283-024-00466-4
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Giancola, S.* , Cioppa, A.* , Georgieva, J., Billingham, J., Serner, A., Peek, K., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2023). Towards Active Learning for Action Spotting in Association Football Videos [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver, Canada. doi:10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00538
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Held, J.* , Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Hamdi, A., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2023). VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver, Canada. doi:10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00537
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Mkhallati, H.* , Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (June 2023). SoccerNet-Caption: Dense Video Captioning for Soccer Broadcasts Commentaries [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver, Canada. doi:10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00536
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Houyon, J.* , Cioppa, A.* , Ghunaim, Y., Alfarra, M., Halin, A., Henry, M., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2023). Online Distillation with Continual Learning for Cyclic Domain Shifts. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2437-2446. doi:10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00242
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Pierard, S., Cioppa, A., Halin, A., Vandeghen, R., Maxime Zanella, Benoît Macq, Saïd Mahmoudi, & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (30 March 2023). Pushing AI out of the lab with on-the-fly mixture domain adaptation [Paper presentation]. The European AI week, Brussels, Belgium.

Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Deliège, A., Somers, V., Magera, F., Mkhallati, H., Kang, L., Zhou, X., Cheng, Z., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (21 February 2023). SoccerNet: Exploring the Game with Computer Vision [Poster presentation]. Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2023, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

Pierard, S., Cioppa, A., Halin, A., Vandeghen, R., Maxime Zanella, Benoît Macq, Saïd Mahmoudi, & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2023). Mixture Domain Adaptation to Improve Semantic Segmentation in Real-World Surveillance. In Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACVW) (pp. 22-31). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/wacvw58289.2023.00007

Giancola, S.* , Cioppa, A.* , Deliège, A., Magera, F., Somers, V., Kang, L., Zhou, X., Barnich, O., De Vleeschouwer, C., Alahi, A., Ghanem, B., Van Droogenbroeck, M., Darwish, A., Maglo, A., Clapés, A., Luyts, A., Boiarov, A., Xarles, A., Orcesi, A., ... Li, Z. (2022). SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results. In ACM International Conference on Multimedia (pp. 75-86). New York, United States - New York: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3552437.3558545
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cantalloube, F., Christiaens, V., Cantero Mitjans, C., Nasedkin, E., Cioppa, A., Absil, O., Bonse, M. J., Delorme, P., Gomez Fernandez Blanco, C., Juillard, S., Mazoyer, J., Samland, M., Ruffio, J.-B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2022). Exoplanet imaging data challenge, phase II: characterization of exoplanet signals in high-contrast images. In Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, volume 12185 (pp. 8-24). International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). doi:10.1117/12.2627968

Cioppa, A.* , Deliège, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (21 June 2022). Scaling up SoccerNet with multi-view spatial localization and re-identification. Scientific Data, 9 (1). doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01469-1
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Deliège, A.* , Kang, L.* , Zhou, X.* , Cheng, Z., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2022). SoccerNet-Tracking: Multiple Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark in Soccer Videos. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) (pp. 3490-3501). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00393
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Vandeghen, R.* , Cioppa, A.* , & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2022). Semi-Supervised Training to Improve Player and Ball Detection in Soccer. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) (pp. 3480-3489). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00392
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cioppa, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Deliège, A., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (31 May 2022). Goal! A practical guide to soccer video understanding [Paper presentation]. Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society Symposium, Oslo, Norway.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Vandeghen, R.* , Cioppa, A.* , & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (03 May 2022). Semi-Supervised Training to Improve Detection for Satellite Images [Poster presentation]. AI4Copernicus: Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence for a Safer World, Bruxelles, Belgium.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., Giancola, S., Magera, F., Somers, V., Cheng, Z., Kang, L., Zhou, X., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2022). Soccer Player Tracking, Re-Identification, Camera Calibration and Action Spotting - SoccerNet Challenge 2022 [Paper presentation]. ACAD Research presentation.

La Rocca, R., Cioppa, A., Van Droogenbroeck, M., Eppe, G., & Quinton, L. (2022). Relational Graph Convolutional Network for Robust Mass Spectrum Classification [Paper presentation]. The International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2022 (IMSC 2022), Maastricht, Netherlands.

Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., Giancola, S., Seikavandi, M., Dueholm, J., Nasrollahi, K., Ghanem, B., Moeslund, T., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (19 June 2021). SoccerNet challenge : Task presentation and winner announcement [Paper presentation]. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), ActivityNet.

Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., Magera, F., Giancola, S., Barnich, O., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2021). Camera Calibration and Player Localization in SoccerNet-v2 and Investigation of their Representations for Action Spotting. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00511

Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Seikavandi, M., Dueholm, J., Nasrollahi, K., Ghanem, B., Moeslund, T., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2021). SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) (pp. 4508-4519). doi:10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00508

Cioppa, A. (2020). Real-time semantics in video sequences [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/252147

Cioppa, A., Van Droogenbroeck, M., & Braham, M. (2020). Real-Time Semantic Background Subtraction. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp. 3214-3218). doi:10.1109/ICIP40778.2020.9190838

Van Droogenbroeck, M., Braham, M., & Cioppa, A. (07 July 2020). Foreground and background detection method.

Cioppa, A., Braham, M., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (18 June 2020). Asynchronous Semantic Background Subtraction. Journal of Imaging, 6 (20), 1-20. doi:10.3390/jimaging6060050

Cioppa, A.* , Deliège, A.* , Giancola, S.* , Ghanem, B., Van Droogenbroeck, M., Gade, R., & Moeslund, T. B. (2020). A Context-Aware Loss Function for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Proceedings, 13123-13133. doi:10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.01314
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cioppa, A.* , Deliège, A.* , Noor, U. H., Gade, R., Van Droogenbroeck, M., & Moeslund, T. B. (2020). Multimodal and multiview distillation for real-time player detection on a football field. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Proceedings, 3846-3855. doi:10.1109/CVPRW50498.2020.00448
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (04 March 2020). Ghost Loss to Question the Reliability of Training Data. IEEE Access, 8, 44774-44782. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2978283

Van Droogenbroeck, M., Deliège, A., & Cioppa, A. (19 December 2019). Image classification using neural networks.

Van Droogenbroeck, M., Deliège, A., & Cioppa, A. (18 December 2019). Image classification using neural networks.

Cioppa, A.* , Deliège, A.* , Istasse, M., De Vleeschouwer, C., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2019). ARTHuS: Adaptive Real-Time Human Segmentation in Sports through Online Distillation. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2505-2514. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00306
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2019). An Effective Hit-or-Miss Layer Favoring Feature Interpretation as Learned Prototypes Deformations. In Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Deliège, A.* , Cioppa, A.* , & Van Droogenbroeck, M.*. (January 2019). HitNet: a neural network with capsules embedded in a Hit-or-Miss layer, extended with hybrid data augmentation and ghost capsules [Paper presentation]. Proceedings of AAAI 2019 Workshop on Network Interpretability for Deep Learning, Honolulu, United States - Hawaii. doi:10.48550/arXiv.1806.06519
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2018). A bottom-up approach based on semantics for the interpretation of the main camera stream in soccer games. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) (pp. 1846-1855). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2018.00229

Van Droogenbroeck, M., & Cioppa, A. (2015). Computer Vision. (ULiège - Université de Liège, ELEN0016 Computer vision).