IPingPong: A Real-time Performance Analyzer System for Table Tennis Stroke’s Movements

Abstract

Assisting table tennis coaching using modern technologies is one of the most trending researches in the sports field. In this paper, we present a methodology to identify and recognize the wrong strokes executed by players to improve the training experience by the usage of an IR depth camera. The proposed system focuses mainly on the errors in table tennis player’s strokes and evaluating them efficiently and based on the analysis and classification of the data obtained from an IR depth camera using multiple algorithms. This paper is a continuation of our previous work [10], focusing more on identifying common wrong strokes in table tennis by utilizing IR depth camera classification algorithms. The classification of the mistakes that took place while playing can be classified based on each player dependently or independently for all players.