EMNLP 2024 Oral
Commentary
MatchTime
Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation
First touch. Aligning match video with language to generate better commentary.
Project homepage ↗Researcher · Builder · Football fan
Understanding football,
from every angle.
I build soccer intelligence that can see the match, read its context, talk with fans, support decisions, and anticipate what happens next.
06Connected papers
01Football startup
2026The next kick-off
Research · The roadmap
One question leads
to the next.
The work began with commentary generation. Each paper then widened the view of the game: from universal perception, to knowledge and reasoning, to unified models, grounded decisions, and generative tactical forecasting.
CVPR 2025
Universal perception
UniSoccer
Towards Universal Soccer Video Understanding
Widening the pitch. From a single language task to a universal video understanding framework.
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ACM Multimedia 2025
Knowledge + reasoning
SoccerAgent
Multi-Agent System for Comprehensive Soccer Understanding
Reading the game. Connecting visual perception with knowledge-enhanced multi-agent reasoning.
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CVPR 2026 Oral · Award Candidate
Foundation model
SoccerMaster
A Vision Foundation Model for Soccer Understanding
Mastering the whole match. One soccer-specific foundation model across fine-grained perception and semantic reasoning.
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ISACE 2026 Oral
Grounded decisions
SoccerRef-Agents
Multi-Agent System for Automated Soccer Refereeing
Making the call. Turning multimodal evidence, laws, and precedent into explainable refereeing decisions.
Project homepage · Soon
In Submission
Generative forecasting
GenTac
Generative Modeling and Forecasting of Soccer Tactics
Seeing the next move. From understanding the present to generating and forecasting tactical futures.
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90+
Research does not stop at understanding the game. It should become useful inside it.
Industry · From papers to matchday
Meet MatchMate.
Your AI live football companion for real-time, personalized match watching. MatchMate turns a passive broadcast into a conversation built around you.
The product
Ask the match.
Feel the match.
Ask anything while the game is live and get instant answers grounded in real-time data, tactical context, and the way you prefer to experience football. MatchMate combines second-screen Q&A, automatic stat summaries, customizable commentary voices, and flexible viewing across phone, desktop, full-screen, and multi-match switching.
The core is real-time personalized interaction: an AI companion that understands the match, remembers what you care about, shares the emotional rhythm of football, and helps every fan see more than the scoreline.
Live personalized interaction
Ask why a substitution happened, who is controlling midfield, or what to watch next. Answers adapt to your knowledge level and interests.
Emotional companionship
Football is tension, joy, frustration, and memory. MatchMate responds with the tone, voice, and energy that makes watching feel shared.
Data you can talk to
Live stats, momentum, player comparisons, and automatic summaries become interactive rather than buried inside dashboards.
Predictions and tactical insight
Understand formations, shape changes, pressure, substitutions, and likely next events with explanations grounded in the live match.
World Cup 2026 edition
Watch the World Cup with MatchMate.
This poster brings the product idea together: live conversation, real-time data, tactical insight, and an easy entry point for every kind of football fan.
The startup vision
AI for the full
football pyramid.
MatchMate begins with fans, but our ambition reaches the whole game. Starting from vision, we are building practical AI that can support training, competition, analysis, communication, and decision-making across professional, semi-professional, and grassroots football.
We are building a startup around a simple belief: advanced football intelligence should not remain inside research papers or elite clubs. It should become a useful teammate for everyone who watches, plays, coaches, or organizes the game.
Vision intelligence for elite analysis, preparation, scouting, and in-match decisions.
Affordable tools that turn limited staff and video resources into actionable insight.
Accessible feedback, automatic highlights, and richer ways to learn and enjoy the game.
Research × Industry × Football