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New Technologies for Sports Analysis and High Performance Training

Luis Paulo Reis  University of Minho  Portugal

Brief Bio 

Luis Paulo Reis is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho and member of the Directive Board of LIACC – Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory in Portugal. He received his Electrical Engineering and MSc degrees from the University of Porto in 1993 and 1995, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence/Robotics at the same University in 2003. During the last 20 years he has lectured courses on Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotics, Simulation and Modeling, Planning and Scheduling and Logic Programming. He was principal investigator of more than 10 research projects in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Simulation, Assistive Technology and Sports Analysis including FC Portugal, three times World Champion and eight times European Champion of Robotic Soccer at RoboCup. He also won more than 40 other scientific awards. He supervised 13 PhD theses and 80 MSc theses to completion and is currently supervising 10 PhD theses. He is the author of more than 250 publications in international conferences and journals. He is the president of SPR - the Portuguese Robotics Society.

Abstract 

Sports are becoming more and more technological. Engineering in general and Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Simulation in particular are becoming an important and almost essential support for many activities directly or indirectly related to sport sciences with emphasis on high performance sports training. In this growing world of high performance sports, elite coaches and sport stars are increasingly entering into the new innovation and technological world to advance performance and gain competitive advantages. This talk will analyze the current state of the art on Sports Analysis and High Performance Training and overview recent projects on these areas. The talk will also present research work and recent advances developed at our laboratory in the area of collective sports analysis, player models and team models creation and extraction and collective sports simulation. Our work has been targeting on creating high-level realistic simulators based on realistic player models in order to enable elite coaches to test and fine tune game strategies for distinct sports both indoor and outdoor.

Studying the Coordination Patterns in Human Motion: New Concepts for the Analysis of Movement

Peter  Federolf  Norwegian University for Science and Technology  Norway

Brief Bio 

Dr. Peter Federolf is a Professor for Biomechanics at Department of Neuroscience in the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway and an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School for Sport Sciences (NIH) in Oslo, Norway. In 2000 he received a degree in Physics and in 2005 his ph.d. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Dr. Federolf held postdoctoral positions at the University of Salzburg, Austria and at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary from 2007 to 2011. His research interests focus on the development of new concepts for the understanding of human motion and the advancement of methods for its analysis.

Abstract 
Coordination of the body segments is one of the most fundamental skills facilitating human motion. Only through successful coordination of the movements of all body segments it is possible to create, to transfer, and to counterbalance the forces that are necessary for executing a movement task. This talk will discuss principal component analysis (PCA) as one method to quantify and investigate coordination patterns in human motion. Effective application of PCA depends on an understanding of the various sources that create variability in human motion data. The talk will therefore also discuss such sources and suggest methods that can be used to reduce detrimental effects of unwanted variability in the analysis. Various application examples for PCA will be presented including clinical gait research, performance analysis in sports, or sports engineering research.

Elastography for Muscle-tendon Biomechanics

Antoine Nordez  University of Nantes  France

Brief Bio 
Dr Antoine Nordez is associate professor at the Sport Sciences department of the University of Nantes (France), and in the laboratory "Movement, Interactions, Performance". He has a background in mechanical engineering and a PhD in biomechanics (2006 at the University of Nantes). he held a post-doctoral position in the "Laboratoire de Biomécanique" at the "Arts et Métiers ParisTech" in Paris (2006-2007). He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in the field of muscle-tendon biomechanics.

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Abstract submission deadline 2014-07-08