Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional Networks

Human movement analysis is very often applied to sport, which has seen great achievements in assessing an athlete’s progress, giving further training tips and in movement recognition. In tennis, there are two basic shots: forehand and backhand, which are performed during all matches and training ses...

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Main Authors: Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska, Pawel Powroznik, Edyta Lukasik
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Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6094
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author Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska
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description Human movement analysis is very often applied to sport, which has seen great achievements in assessing an athlete’s progress, giving further training tips and in movement recognition. In tennis, there are two basic shots: forehand and backhand, which are performed during all matches and training sessions. Recognition of these movements is important in the quantitative analysis of a tennis game. In this paper, the authors propose using Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GCN) to challenge the above task. Recognition of the shots is performed on the basis of images obtained from 3D tennis movements (forehands and backhands) recorded by the Vicon motion capture system (Oxford Metrics Ltd, Oxford, UK), where both the player and the racket were recorded. Two methods of putting data into the ST-GCN network were compared: with and without fuzzying of data. The obtained results confirm that the use of fuzzy input graphs for ST-GCNs is a better tool for recognition of forehand and backhand tennis shots relative to graphs without fuzzy input.
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spelling doaj.art-bd5da3bdffd7475abd1179e23b81b38e2023-11-20T18:39:03ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-10-012021609410.3390/s20216094Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional NetworksMaria Skublewska-Paszkowska0Pawel Powroznik1Edyta Lukasik2Department of Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, PolandDepartment of Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, PolandDepartment of Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, PolandHuman movement analysis is very often applied to sport, which has seen great achievements in assessing an athlete’s progress, giving further training tips and in movement recognition. In tennis, there are two basic shots: forehand and backhand, which are performed during all matches and training sessions. Recognition of these movements is important in the quantitative analysis of a tennis game. In this paper, the authors propose using Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GCN) to challenge the above task. Recognition of the shots is performed on the basis of images obtained from 3D tennis movements (forehands and backhands) recorded by the Vicon motion capture system (Oxford Metrics Ltd, Oxford, UK), where both the player and the racket were recorded. Two methods of putting data into the ST-GCN network were compared: with and without fuzzying of data. The obtained results confirm that the use of fuzzy input graphs for ST-GCNs is a better tool for recognition of forehand and backhand tennis shots relative to graphs without fuzzy input.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6094tennis movement recognitionST-GCNfuzzy data
spellingShingle Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska
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tennis movement recognition
ST-GCN
fuzzy data
title Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional Networks
title_full Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional Networks
title_fullStr Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional Networks
title_full_unstemmed Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional Networks
title_short Learning Three Dimensional Tennis Shots Using Graph Convolutional Networks
title_sort learning three dimensional tennis shots using graph convolutional networks
topic tennis movement recognition
ST-GCN
fuzzy data
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/21/6094
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