TacSIm: A Dataset and Benchmark for Football Tactical Style Imitation
Peng Wen, Yuting Wang, Qiurui Wang

TL;DR
TacSIm introduces a comprehensive dataset and benchmark for evaluating football tactical style imitation, focusing on replicating team behaviors from broadcast footage using spatial and temporal similarity metrics.
Contribution
It provides the first large-scale dataset and standardized evaluation protocols for tactical style imitation in football, enabling consistent benchmarking.
Findings
Baseline methods demonstrate the feasibility of tactical imitation.
Spatial and temporal similarity metrics effectively evaluate imitation quality.
Unified data and metrics facilitate comprehensive assessment of team behaviors.
Abstract
Current football imitation research primarily aims to opti mize reward-based objectives, such as goals scored or win rate proxies, paying less attention to accurately replicat ing real-world team tactical behaviors. We introduce Tac SIm, a large-scale dataset and benchmark for Tactical Style Imitation in football. TacSIm imitates the acitons of all 11 players in one team in the given broadcast footage of Pre mier League matches under a single broadcast view. Under a offensive or defensive broadcast footage, TacSIm projects the beginning positions and actions of all 22 players from both sides onto a standard pitch coordinate system. Tac SIm offers an explicit style imitation task and evaluation protocols. Tactics style imitation is measured by using spatial occupancy similarity and movement vector similarity in defined time, supporting the evaluation of spatial and tem poral similarities…
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Taxonomy
TopicsHuman Motion and Animation · Sports Performance and Training · Human Pose and Action Recognition
