SoccerMaster: A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding

ArXi:2512.11016v2 Announce Type: replace Soccer understanding has recently garnered growing research interest due to its domain-specific complexity and unique challenges. Unlike prior works that typically rely on isolated, task-specific expert models, this work aims to propose a unified model to handle diverse soccer visual understanding tasks, ranging from fine-grained perception (e.g., athlete detection and identification) to high-level semantic reasoning (e.g., event classification