  Action spotting in soccer videos is the task of identifying the specific time
when a certain key action of the game occurs. Lately, it has received a large
amount of attention and powerful methods have been introduced. Action spotting
involves understanding the dynamics of the game, the complexity of events, and
the variation of video sequences. Most approaches have focused on the latter,
given that their models exploit the global visual features of the sequences. In
this work, we focus on the former by (a) identifying and representing the
players, referees, and goalkeepers as nodes in a graph, and by (b) modeling
their temporal interactions as sequences of graphs. For the player
identification, or player classification task, we obtain an accuracy of 97.72%
in our annotated benchmark. For the action spotting task, our method obtains an
overall performance of 57.83% average-mAP by combining it with other
audiovisual modalities. This performance surpasses similar graph-based methods
and has competitive results with heavy computing methods. Code and data are
available at https://github.com/IPCV/soccer_action_spotting.
