Computer vision and deep learning AI to analyse athletes’ movements in sport (IMAGE)
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Professor Dustin van der Haar played cricket at school. He uses computer vision techniques to analyse athlete performance and medical imaging. He is a pattern recognition researcher at the Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering (ACSSE), University of Johannesburg. He is the corresponding author of research published in Nature Scientific Reports: UJ researchers built the first deep learning AI model to spot which backlift style cricket batters use – straight or lateral. It automates the process of analysing players’ batting style, using video only. The greatest cricket batsman Sir Donald Bradman was a lateral backlift player.
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