Video Processing for Barycenter Trajectory Identification in Diving
This addresses the need for accessible performance analysis in diving, particularly for middle or low-level athletes, though it appears incremental as it adapts existing video processing techniques to a new sport context.
The paper tackles the problem of quantifying diving performance by developing a video processing procedure to identify a diver's barycenter trajectory, aiming to provide a flexible and low-cost tool for training across all athlete levels.
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.