ViTs for Action Classification in Videos: An Approach to Risky Tackle Detection in American Football Practice Videos
arXiv:2604.01318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early identification of hazardous actions in contact sports enables timely intervention and improves player safety. We present a method for detecting risky tackles in American football practice videos and introduce a substantially expanded dataset for this task. Our work contains 733 single-athlete-dummy tackle clips, each temporally localized around first point contact and labeled with a strike zone component of the standardized Assessment for Tackling Technique (SATT-3), extending prior work that reported 178 annotated […]