Publications

Journal Papers and Conference with Proceedings (reverse chronological order):

1. Mohamad Dalal, Artur Xarles, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Bernard Ghanem, Albert Clapés, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund, Action Anticipation from SoccerNet Football Video Broadcasts, CVsports'25 Workshop (CVPRW 2025)

2. Victor Gaspar, Anthony Cioppa, Jan Held, Silvio Giancola, Marc Braham, Adrien Deliège, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, An End-to-End Pipeline for Virtual Banner Replacement in Football Broadcasts, CVsports'25 Workshop (CVPRW 2025)

3. Shuming Liu, Chen Zhao, Fatimah Zohra, Mattia Soldan, Alejandro Pardo, Mengmeng Xu, Lama Alssum, Merey Ramazanova, Juan C Leon Alcazar, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Carlos Hinojosa, Bernard Ghanem, OpenTAD: A Unified Framework and Comprehensive Study of Temporal Action Detection, CVPR Workshop on Pixel-level Video Understanding in the Wild Challenge, (CVPRW 2025)

4. Jan Held*, Renaud Vandeghen*, Abdullah Hamdi*, Adrien Deliege, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Andrea Vedaldi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, 3D Convex Splatting: Radiance Field Rendering with 3D Smooth Convexes, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

5. Håkan Ardö, Mikael Nilsson, Anthony Cioppa, Floriane Magera, Silvio Giancola, Haochen Liu, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Spiideo SoccerNet SynLoc: Single Frame World Coordinate Athlete Detection and Localization with Synthetic Data, 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2025)

6. Abdullah Hamdi, Faisal AlZahrani, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, MVTN: Learning Multi-View Transformations for 3D Understanding, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024

7. Sushant Gautam, Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh, Jan Held, Cise Midoglu, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Vajira Thambawita, Michael A Riegler, Pål Halvorsen, Mubarak Shah, SoccerNet-Echoes: A Soccer Game Audio Commentary Dataset, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2024)

8. Santiago Rivier, Carlos Hinojosa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Efficient Semantic Segmentation For Aerial Imagery Using Query Points and Superpixel Supervision, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024)

9. Jinjie Mai, Wenxuan Zhu, Sara Rojas Martinez, Jesus Zarzar, Abdullah Hamdi, Guocheng Qian, Bing Li, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, TrackNeRF: Bundle Adjusting NeRF from Sparse and Noisy Views via Feature Tracks, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)

10. Alexandre Eymaël*, Renaud Vandeghen*, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)

11. Maksim Makarenko, Qizhou Wang, Arturo Burguete-Lopez, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Luca Passone, Andrea Fratalocchi, Hardware-accelerated integrated optoelectronic platform towards real-time high-resolution hyperspectral video understanding, Nature Communication

12. Anthony Cioppa*, Silvio Giancola*, Vladimir Somers, Floriane Magera, Xin Zhou, Hassan Mkhallati, Adrien Deliège, Jan Held, Carlos Hinojosa, Amir M. Mansourian, Pierre Miralles, Olivier Barnich, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Alexandre Alahi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, et. al., SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Results, Sports Engineering 27.2 (2024): 24.

13. Antoine Deckyvere, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Investigating Event-Based Cameras for Video Frame Interpolation in Sports, IEEE-STAR'24

14. Yassine Benzakour, Bruno Cabado, Silvio Giancola, Anthony Cioppa, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, OSL-ActionSpotting: A Unified Library for Action Spotting in Sports Videos, IEEE-STAR'24

15. Jan Held, Hani Itani, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, X-VARS: Introducing Explainability in Football Refereeing with Multi-Modal Large Language Models, CVsports'24 Workshop (CVPRW 2024) [Oral]

16. Arnaud Leduc, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, SoccerNet-Depth: a Scalable Dataset for Monocular Depth Estimation in Sports Videos, CVsports'24 Workshop (CVPRW 2024)

17. Vladimir Somers*, Victor Joos*, Anthony Cioppa*, Silvio Giancola*, Seyed Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh, Floriane Magera, Baptiste Standaert, Amir Mohammad Mansourian, Xin Zhou, Shohreh Kasaei, Bernard Ghanem, Alexandre Alahi, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, SoccerNet Game State Reconstruction: End-to-End Athlete Tracking and Identification on a Minimap, CVsports'24 Workshop (CVPRW 2024)

18. Bruno Cabado, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Andrés Villa, Bertha Guijarro-Berdinas, Emilio J Padròn, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Beyond the Premier: Assessing Action Spotting Transfer Capability Across Diverse Domains, CVsports'24 Workshop (CVPRW 2024)

19. Asma Yamani, Albandari Abdullah, Hamzah Luqman, Bernard Ghanem, Silvio Giancola, "Active Learning for Single-Stage Object Detection in UAV Images", IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024)

20. Jinjie Mai, Abdullah Hamdi, Silvio Giancola, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem, "EgoLoc: Revisiting 3D Object Localization from Egocentric Videos with Visual Queries", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023) [Oral]

21. Hassan Mkhallati*, Anthony Cioppa*, Silvio Giancola*, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, SoccerNet-Caption: Dense Video Captioning for Soccer Broadcasts Commentaries, CVsports'23 Workshop (CVPRW 2023) [Oral]

22. Jan Held*, Anthony Cioppa*, Silvio Giancola*, Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views, CVsports'23 Workshop (CVPRW 2023)

23. Silvio Giancola*, Anthony Cioppa*, Julia Georgieva, Johsan Billingham, Andreas Serner, Kerry Peek, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Towards Active Learning for Action Spotting in Association Football Videos, CVsports'23 Workshop (CVPRW 2023)

24. Abdullah Hamdi, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Voint Cloud: Multi-View Point Cloud Representation for 3D Understanding, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023)

25. Guohao Li, Mengmeng Xu, Silvio Giancola, Ali Thabet, and Bernard Ghanem. LC-NAS: Latency constrained neural architecture search for point cloud networks. 3DV 2022.

26. Silvio Giancola*, Anthony Cioppa*, Adrien Deliège, Floriane Magera, Vladimir Somers, Le Kang, Xin Zhou, Olivier Barnich, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Alexandre Alahi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, et. al., SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results, MMSports'22

27. Anthony Cioppa*, Adrien Deliège*, Silvio Giancola*, Bernard Ghanem, and Marc Van Droogenbroeck, "SoccerNet-v3 - Scaling up SoccerNet with Multi-View Spatial Localization and Re-Identification", Nature Scientific Data 2022

28. Gabriel Pérez Santamarina*, Motasem Alfarra*, Juan Camilo Pérez*, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, "3DeformRS: Certifying Spatial Deformations on Point Clouds", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)

29. Mattia Soldan, Alejandro Pardo, Juan Leon, Fabian Caba, Chen Zhao, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, "MAD: A Scalable Dataset for Language Grounding in Videos from Movie Audio Descriptions", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)

30. Maksim Makarenko, Arturo Burguete Lopez, Qizhou Wang, Fedor Getman, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Andrea Fratalocchi, "Real-time hyperspectral imaging in hardware via trained metasurface encoders", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022) [code]

31. Anthony Cioppa*, Silvio Giancola*, Adrien Deliège*, Le Kang*, Xin Zhou*, Zhiyu Cheng, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, "SoccerNet-Tracking: Multiple Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark in Soccer Videos", CVsports Workshop (CVPRW 2022) [Oral] [Best Paper Award]

32. Bing Li, Cheng Zheng, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, "SCTN: Sparse Convolution-Transformer Network for Scene Flow Estimation", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022)

33. Abdullah Hamdi, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, "MVTN: Multi-View Transformation Network for 3D Shape Recognition",  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)

34. Humam Alwassel, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, "TSP: Temporally-Sensitive Pretraining of Video Encoders for Localization Tasks",  AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding Workshop (CVEU) at ICCV 2021 (ICCVW 2021)

35. Silvio Giancola and Bernard Ghanem, "Temporally-Aware Feature Pooling for Action Spotting in Soccer Broadcasts", CVsports Workshop (CVPRW 2021)

36. Adrien Deliège*, Anthony Cioppa*, Silvio Giancola*, Meisam Jamshidi*, Jacob Dueholm*, Kamal Nasrollahi, Bernard Ghanem, Thomas B. Moeslund, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, "SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos", CVsports Workshop (CVPRW 2021) [Best Paper Award]

37. Anthony Cioppa*, Adrien Deliège*, Floriane Magera*, Silvio Giancola*, Olivier Barnich, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, "Camera Calibration and Player Localization in SoccerNet-v2 and Investigation of their Representations for Action Spotting", CVsports Workshop (CVPRW 2021)

38. Justine Braguy, Merey Ramazanova, Silvio Giancola, Muhammad Jamil, Boubacar A. Kountche, Randa Zarban, Abrar Felemban, Jian You Wang, Pei-Yu Lin, Imran Haider, Matias Zurbriggen, Bernard Ghanem, Salim Al-Babili, "SeedQuant: A deep learning-based tool for assessing stimulants and inhibitors activity on root parasitic seeds", Plant Physiology 2021

39. Anthony Cioppa*, Adrien Deliège*, Silvio Giancola*, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Rikke Gade, Thomas Moeslund, "A Context-Aware Loss Function for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos", Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020)

40. Silvio Giancola*, Jesus Zarzar*, Bernard Ghanem, "Leveraging Shape Completion for 3D Siamese Tracking", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019)

41. Matthias Mueller*, Adel Bibi*, Silvio Giancola*, Salman Al-Subaihi, Bernard Ghanem, "TrackingNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Object Tracking in the Wild", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018) [project page]

42. Silvio Giancola, Mohieddine Amine, Tarek Dghaily, Bernard Ghanem, "SoccerNet: A Scalable Dataset for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2018) [Oral] [project page]

43. Silvio Giancola, Jens Schneider, Peter Wonka, Bernard Ghanem, "Integration of Absolute Orientation Measurements in the KinectFusion Reconstruction Pipeline", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW 2018)

44. Marco Tarabini, Hermes Giberti, Silvio Giancola, Matteo Sgrenzaroli, Remo Sala, and Federico Cheli. "A moving 3D laser scanner for automated underbridge inspection." Machines 5, no. 4 (2017): 32.

45. Zuzana Caplova, Valentina Compassi, Silvio Giancola, Daniele M. Gibelli, Zuzana Obertová, Pasquale Poppa, Remo Sala, Chiarella Sforza, and Cristina Cattaneo. "Recognition of children on age-different images: Facial morphology and age-stable features." Science & Justice 57, no. 4 (2017): 250-256.

46. Silvio Giancola, Andrea Corti, Franco Molteni, and Remo Sala. "Motion capture: an evaluation of Kinect V2 body tracking for upper limb motion analysis." In International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, pp. 302-309. Springer, Cham, 2016.

47. Paolo Abbondanza, Silvio Giancola, Remo Sala, and Marco Tarabini. "Accuracy of the Microsoft Kinect system in the identification of the body posture." In International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, pp. 289-296. Springer, Cham, 2016.

48. Andrea Corti, Silvio Giancola, Giacomo Mainetti, and Remo Sala. "A metrological characterization of the Kinect V2 time-of-flight camera." Robotics and Autonomous Systems 75 (2016): 584-594.

49. Silvio Giancola, Hermes Giberti, Remo Sala, Marco Tarabini, Federico Cheli, and Marco Garozzo. "A non-contact optical technique for vehicle tracking along bounded trajectories." In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 658, no. 1, p. 012010. IOP Publishing, 2015.

50. Silvio Giancola, Davide Chiarion, and Remo Sala. "A robot trajectory programming method using multi-camera systems." In 2014 IEEE/ASME 10th International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2014.

Book / Theses

1. Silvio Giancola, Matteo Valenti, and Remo Sala. "A survey on 3D cameras: Metrological comparison of time-of-flight, structured-light and active stereoscopy technologies", Springer Nature, 2018.

2. Silvio Giancola, Metrological analysis of Time-of-Flight cameras performances for multipurpose 3D reconstruction, PhD Thesis, Politecnico di Milano, 2017.

3. Silvio Giancola, Programmation offline d'une cellule robotisée à l'aide de techniques innovantes, MSc Thesis, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg, 2012.

Patent

1. Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Jens Schneider, Peter Wonka, "System and method for three-dimensional image reconstruction using an absolute orientation sensor" (US Patent Application: Serial No. 15/653,163, filed 18/07/2017, issued 26/11/2019)