Soccer is more than just a game - it is a passion that transcends borders and unites people worldwide. From the roar of the crowds to the excitement of the commentators, every moment of a soccer match is a thrill. Yet, with so many games happening simultaneously, fans cannot watch them all live. Notifications for main actions can help, but lack the engagement of live commentary, leaving fans feeling disconnected. To fulfill this need, we propose in this paper a novel task of dense video captioning focusing on the generation of textual commentaries anchored with single timestamps. To support this task, we additionally present a challenging dataset consisting of almost 37k timestamped commentaries across 715.9 hours of soccer broadcast videos. Additionally, we propose a first benchmark and baseline for this task, highlighting the difficulty of temporally anchoring commentaries yet showing the capacity to generate meaningful commentaries. By providing broadcasters with a tool to summarize the content of their video with the same level of engagement as a live game, our method could help satisfy the needs of the numerous fans who follow their team but cannot necessarily watch the live game. We believe our method has the potential to enhance the accessibility and understanding of soccer content for a wider audience, bringing the excitement of the game to more people.

翻译：足球不仅是一项运动，更是一种跨越国界、联结世界的激情。从观众的呐喊到解说员的激昂解说，足球比赛的每一刻都令人振奋。然而，由于多场比赛同时进行，球迷无法实时观看所有赛事。主要动作的推送通知虽然有所帮助，但缺乏实时解说的参与感，使球迷感到疏离。为满足这一需求，本文提出了一项聚焦于单时间戳锚定文本解说生成的新型密集视频描述任务。为此，我们构建了一个包含近3.7万条时间戳标注解说词、覆盖715.9小时足球赛事视频的挑战性数据集。同时，我们提出了该任务的第一个基准与基线模型，揭示了时间锚定解说的难度，同时展示了生成有意义的解说的能力。通过为广播机构提供一种工具，使其能够以与现场比赛相当的参与度总结视频内容，我们的方法可帮助满足众多关注球队但无法观看现场比赛的球迷的需求。我们相信，该方法有望提升更广泛受众对足球内容的理解与可及性，将比赛的激情传递给更多人。