  | 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. |
  | 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  Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi* 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. (09 December 2024). Physically Interpretable Probabilistic Domain Characterization [Paper presentation]. First International Workshop on AI-based All-Weather Surveillance System (AWSS), Hanoï, Vietnam. Peer reviewed* These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
 | Pierard, S., Halin, A., Cioppa, A., Deliège, A., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). Foundations of the Theory of Performance-Based Ranking. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/325534. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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]. Open Science Day, Liège, Belgium. |
 | Held, J.* , Vandeghen, R.* , Hamdi, A.* , Deliège, A., Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Vedaldi, A., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). 3D Convex Splatting: Radiance Field Rendering with 3D Smooth Convexes. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/324936. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2411.14974 * 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. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/322978. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2410.01304 * 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: SPIE. doi:10.1117/12.3020278 Editorial reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed* These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
 | 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data* These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
 | 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data |
 | 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data |
 | Eymaël, A.* , Vandeghen, R.* , Cioppa, A., Giancola, S., Ghanem, B., & Van Droogenbroeck, M. (2024). Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/315425. * 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 Peer reviewed* 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 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi* 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data* 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data* 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data* 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 Peer reviewed* 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. Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/ |
 | 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). IEEE. doi:10.1109/wacvw58289.2023.00007 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data* 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). SPIE. doi:10.1117/12.2627968 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/data* 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). IEEE. doi:10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00393 Peer reviewed* 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). IEEE. doi:10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00392 Peer reviewed* 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. Dataset: https://www.soccer-net.org/* 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. Peer reviewed |
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. |
 | 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 Peer reviewed |
 | 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). IEEE. doi:10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00511 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | 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 Peer reviewed* These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
 | 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 Peer reviewed* 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 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | 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 Peer reviewed* 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. Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer reviewed* 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). IEEE. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2018.00229 Peer reviewed |
 | Van Droogenbroeck, M., & Cioppa, A. (2015). Computer Vision. (ULiège - Université de Liège, ELEN0016 Computer vision). |
