Video Processing for Barycenter Trajectory Identification in Diving

TL;DR

This paper presents a video processing method to identify the diver's barycenter trajectory, enabling quantitative performance analysis in diving training, especially suitable for low-cost and flexible applications across different athlete levels.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel video processing procedure for barycenter tracking in diving, facilitating performance analysis for a broader range of athletes.

Findings

Effective barycenter trajectory identification demonstrated

Suitable for low-cost, flexible implementation

Enhances quantitative analysis in diving training

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show a procedure for identify the barycentre of a diver by means of video processing. This procedure is aimed to introduce quantitative analysis tools and diving performance measurement and therefore in diving training. Sport performance analysis is a trend that is growing exponentially for all level athletes: it has been applied extensively in some sports such as cycling. Sport performance analysis has been applied mainly for high level athletes; in order to be used also for middle or low level athletes the proposed technique has to be flexible and low cost. Video processing is suitable to fulfil both these requirements. In diving, the first analysis that has to be done is the barycentre trajectory tracking.