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The Application of Multiview Human Body Tracking on the Example of Hurdle Clearance

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Sport Science Research and Technology Support (icSPORTS 2016, icSPORTS 2017)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 975))

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Abstract

This initial research presents the multiview human body tracking method as a tool to measure hurdle clearance parameters. This study was conducted on high level hurdlers, who were members of the Polish national team. The video sequences were recorded by a multicamera system consisting of three 100 Hz Full HD cameras. The sequences were registered under the simulated starting conditions of a 110 m hurdles race. Kinematic parameters were estimated based on the analysis of images from the multicamera system. These parameters were compared with the parameters obtained from ground truth poses. Mean absolute error and mean relative error were selected as the quality criteria. The main advantage of the method presented here is that it does not need any special clothes, markers or the support of other estimation techniques.

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This work has been partially supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the research project “Development of Academic Sport” in the years 2016-2018, project No. N RSA4 00554.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rzeszów University of Technology, Wincentego Pola 2, 35-959, Rzeszów, Poland

    Tomasz Krzeszowski & Krzysztof Wiktorowicz

  2. Faculty of Physical Education, University of Rzeszów, Towarnickiego 3, 35-959, Rzeszów, Poland

    Krzysztof Przednowek

  3. Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, Prószkowska 76, 45-758, Opole, Poland

    Janusz Iskra

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Krzeszowski, T., Przednowek, K., Wiktorowicz, K., Iskra, J. (2019). The Application of Multiview Human Body Tracking on the Example of Hurdle Clearance. In: Cabri, J., Pezarat-Correia, P., Vilas-Boas, J. (eds) Sport Science Research and Technology Support. icSPORTS icSPORTS 2016 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 975. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14526-2_8

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