Automatic recognition and scoring of olympic rhythmic gymnastic movements

•Algorithm for scoring rhythmic gymnastic movements from video shots.•Realtime, markerless computer vision software system.•Movements compared by distance of spatiotemporal trajectories.•Rhythmic gymnastic movements database made publicly available. We describe a conceptually simple algorithm for as...

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Published in:Human movement science 2014-04, Vol.34, p.63-80
Main Authors: Díaz-Pereira, M. Pino, Gómez-Conde, Iván, Escalona, Merly, Olivieri, David N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Athletic Performance
Automatism - psychology
Child
Female
Gymnastics - psychology
Human motion recognition
Humans
Judgment
PCA
Quality of movement
Recognition (Psychology)
Software
Spatio-temporal analysis
Sports scoring
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Summary:•Algorithm for scoring rhythmic gymnastic movements from video shots.•Realtime, markerless computer vision software system.•Movements compared by distance of spatiotemporal trajectories.•Rhythmic gymnastic movements database made publicly available. We describe a conceptually simple algorithm for assigning judgement scores to rhythmic gymnastic movements, which could improve scoring objectivity and reduce judgemental bias during competitions. Our method, implemented as a real-time computer vision software, takes a video shot or a live performance video stream as input and extracts detailed velocity field information from body movements, transforming them into specialized spatio-temporal image templates. The collection of such images over time, when projected into a velocity covariance eigenspace, trace out unique but similar trajectories for a particular gymnastic movement type. By comparing separate executions of the same atomic gymnastic routine, our method assigns a quality judgement score that is related to the distance between the respective spatio-temporal trajectories. For several standard gymnastic movements, the method accurately assigns scores that are comparable to those assigned by expert judges. We also describe our rhythmic gymnastic video shot database, which we have made freely available to the human movement research community. The database can be obtained at http://www.milegroup.net/apps/gymdb/.
ISSN:0167-9457
1872-7646
DOI:10.1016/j.humov.2014.01.001