Category: biomechanics

Jocelyn Moore – Vault

One of the best vaults of the season, so far.

A good example of how video analysis rewarding height, distance and early completion of the twist would be more accurate than human judges.

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FB CURVES 3D GYM Twisting

Real life, real time it can be challenging to analyze complex twisting skills.

In FB CURVES you can slow them down and watch from different angles.

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Watanabe: computers may eventually replace judges

I feel progress has been slow.

I can’t foresee it happening any time soon.

Watanabe, who retained his position as FIG President at last month’s Congress, stresses that the technology is currently assisting judges but did not rule out the idea of it eventually becoming sole arbiter.

“At this stage, it is a judging support system,” Watanabe told insidethegames.

“It may be a substitute for humans in the future. …

Exclusive: FIG President Watanabe says computers may eventually replace judges

FB CURVES 3D GYM is awesome

The best graphics program available.

A subscription costs a few dollars a month.

Christmas is coming — just saying‘.

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revisiting Aly’s tumbling pass

The Olympic champ is still the only person ever to have competed this line.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Fujitsu “Judging Support System”

Fujitsu will be working Worlds 2021, of course. Analyzing more routines for their database.

A webinar has been posted online:

FIG and Fujitsu to discuss AI “Judging Support System”

Watanabe speaks in English in the video. He’s really improved over the past few years.

He points out that other sports are using video analysis. Tennis and baseball, for example.

But judging support is only one goal of the project.

Steve Butcher details other uses.

Fujitsu expects all 10 Artistic apparatus to be ready for 2024. (Progress seems slow, to me.)

By end of 2022 the “Training Support System” should be ready. I’d love to have a chance to test that in the gym.

The very first use of computer video analysis should have been to display height and distance of a skill relative to the height of the athlete. Vault post flight, for example.

Fujitsu is doing a good job analyzing Ring strength holds, however. The system can do better than most FIG judges.

Personally, I’m disappointed in the graphics rendered by the software. It’s embarrassing that every representation has feet apart, for example.

I WISH Fujitsu could output something 1/10th as good as FB CURVES 3D GYM.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.