Physical Education Department, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
DEIB - Conference Room "Emilio Gatti"
June 26th, 2018
2.15 - 4.15 pm
Contacts:
Guido Baroni
Research Line:
Technologies for diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation
Motion capture systems (MOCAP) are traditionally adopted to reconstruct the movements of humans in sport gesture analysis. However, optoelectronics and electromagnetic devices, mainly devoted to laboratory analysis, feature high costs and are not designed for both outdoor and underwater usage as a swimming analysis. An alternative video-based technology is represented by commercial cameras, as for example, action sport cameras (ASC), which are currently used mainly for recreational purposes. Their uninterrupted technical improvements, in terms of image resolution and capture frequency, in correspondence of a cost decrease, are enabling them to sport gesture study and athletic performance evaluation. Extending this technology for three-dimensional (3D) sport analysis using multiple cameras requires a methodologic step-forward to making ASC a metric system, encompassing ad-hoc camera setup, synchronization of the acquisitions, and devoted calibration protocols.
In this talk, the advantages and disadvantages of use the MOCAP system and video-based methods for the sports analysis, the step-forward to making video-based methods as ASC a metric system and variables related to sport performance, physical condition, athletic performance, technical expertise from Silvatti’s Lab studies will be presented.
Prof. Amanda Piaia Silvatti received her Bachelor’s in Physical Education from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil in 2005. She received her Master’s, and Ph.D. in Physical Education also from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2009 she received the Second Place - Hans Gros New Investigator Award, 27th International Conference on Biomechanics in Sport and in 2010 the Firts Place – of the same award in the 28th International Conference on Biomechanics in Sport. Since 2013, Prof. Amanda is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa. She is scientific journal reviewer in different journals related to biomechanics and sport (Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Sports Biomechanics, Journal of Sports Sciences) and has seventeen papersin international scientific journals. Her research focus is related to breathing biomechanics, biomechanical evaluations in sports (swimming, combat sports, basketball, ballet) and gait (human and animal), and biomechanical methodologies developments. She is member of the International Society of the Biomechanics in Sport, European College of Sport Science, and European Society of Biomechanics.