Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
A. Deliège, A. Cioppa, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. Ghost loss to question the reliability of training data. IEEE Access, 8:44774–44782, March 2020.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/245659
A. Cioppa, M. Braham, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. Asynchronous semantic background subtraction. Journal of Imaging, 6(6):1–20, June 2020. PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/248665. Patent granted by the US Patent Office.
Publications in international conferences
A. Cioppa, A. Deliège, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. A bottom-up approach based on semantics for the interpretation of the main camera stream in soccer games. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports, pages 1846–1855, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 2018. PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/222427.
Best paper award at the 2018 CVsports workshop.
A. Deliège, A. Cioppa, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. An effective hit-or-miss layer favoring feature interpretation as learned prototypes deformations. In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Network Interpretability for Deep Learning, pages 1–8, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January-February 2019. PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/229746.
A. Cioppa, A. Deliège, M. Istasse, C. De Vlesschouwer, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. ARTHuS: Adaptive real-time human segmentation in sports through online distillation. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports, pages 2505–2514, Long Beach, California, USA, June 2019.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/234413.
Best paper award at the 2019 CVsports workshop.
A. Cioppa, A. Deliège, N. Ul Huda, R. Gade, M. Van Droogenbroeck, and T. Moeslund. Multimodal and multiview distillation for real-time player detection on a football field. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports, pages 3846–3855, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2020.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/246668.
Best paper award at the 2020 CVsports workshop.
A. Deliège, A. Cioppa, S. Giancola, M. Seikavandi, J. Dueholm, K. Nasrollahi, B. Ghanem, T. Moeslund, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), CVsports, Virtual event, June 2021.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/253781.
Best paper award at the 2021 CVsports workshop.
A. Cioppa, A. Deliège, F. Magera, S. Giancola, O. Barnich, B. Ghanem, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. 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), CVsports, Virtual event, June 2021.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/259026.
A. Cioppa, A. Deliège, S. Giancola, B. Ghanem, M. Van Droogenbroeck, R. Gade, and T. Moeslund. A context-aware loss function for action spotting in soccer videos. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages 13123–13133, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2020. PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/241893.
A. Cioppa, M. Van Droogenbroeck, and M. Braham. Real-time semantic background subtraction. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pages 3214– 3218, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 2020.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/247775.
Patent protected by the US Patent Office.
Arxiv publications
A. Deliège, A. Cioppa, and M. Van Droogenbroeck. HitNet: a neural network with capsules embedded in a Hit-or-Miss layer, extended with hybrid data augmentation and ghost capsules. CoRR, abs/1806.06519, June 2018.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✘, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/225615.
Patents
M. Van Droogenbroeck, M. Braham, and A. Cioppa. Foreground and background detection method. US Patent Office, July 2020.
PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/238274 .
STATUS: B1 (accepted)
Thesis
A. Cioppa. Real-time semantics in video sequences. PhD Thesis. University of Liège, December 2020. PEER-REVIEWED: ✔, URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2268/252147