Low-cost motion sensing of table tennis players for real time feedback

Eric O Boyer (1, 2) , Frédéric Bevilacqua (1, 2) , François Phal (1, 2) , Sylvain Hanneton (1, 2)

1 Equipe Interactions musicales temps-réel
2 Equipe Perception et design sonores

We present a motion capture device to measure in real-time table tennis strokes. A six degree-of-freedom sensing device, inserted into the racket handle, measures 3D acceleration and 3-axis angular velocity values at a high sampling rate. Data are wirelessly transmitted to a computer in real-time. This flexible system allows for recording and analyzing kinematics information on the motion of the racket, along with synchronized video and sound recordings. Recorded gesture data are analyzed using several algorithms we developed to segment and extract movement features, and to build a reference motion database.

Mots clés: biomechanics; movement analysis; Sensors; sonification; motor learning; auditory feedback; sound; gesture

Domaines: Son [cs.SD]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Autre [cs.OH]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Informatique [cs]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Apprentissage [cs.LG]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur; Multimédia [cs.MM]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Eric O Boyer, Frédéric Bevilacqua, François Phal, Sylvain Hanneton. Low-cost motion sensing of table tennis players for real time feedback. International Journal of Table Tennis Sciences, 2013, 8, pp.1-4. ⟨hal-01106920⟩