The urgent need to increase productivity and competitiveness demands from sporting craft builders the incorporation of newer design and manufacturing technologies, as CAD/CAM and CNC machining systems. This paper describes the sporting boats’ 3D surface modelling, needed for automated manufacturing processes, throug terrestrial laser scanner technology. The methodology followed for data collect...

When traditional fixed-viewpoint video of an event is rendered, the only viewpoint available for playback is that of the camera that recorded the event. Free-viewpoint video (FVV) attempts to break this restriction by allowing the specification of the viewpoint at the point of rendering rather than the point of recording. This work proposes to apply the techniques of FVV to video recorded at ou...

Anaerobic capacity/anaerobically attributable power is an important parameter for athletic performance, not only for short high-intensity activities but also for breakaway efforts and end spurts during endurance events. Unlike aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity cannot be easily quantified. The 3 most commonly used methodologies to quantify anaerobic capacity are the maximal accumulated oxygen...

The Albany Stale Oreat Danes baseball team enters the I983 season with a youthful look in the field and on the bench. The Danes lineup will feature live new starters and a rookie manager. "My goal is always to have a better record than the year before," Albany Slate baseball head coach Dave Haighl said. "Improvement over the year before Is-always Important." Haight in his first year as pilot of...

television viewing of sports events is estimated to be 77 billion hours per year.2 One might add to this several hundreds of millions of hours spent in discussion at the water cooler. Designing an optimal contest is both a matter of significant financial concern for the organizers, participating individuals, and teams, and a matter of consuming personal interest for millions of fans. Not surpri...

In this paper we present a framework that allows for the automatic identification of sporting activities using commonly available smartphones. We extract discriminative informational features from smartphone accelerometers using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Despite the poor quality of their accelerometers, smartphones were used as capture devices due to their prevalence in today's soci...

Commotio cordis is ventricular fibrillation that results from blunt chest trauma and is a life threatening condition; early resuscitation and defibrillation are critical. This may occur during sporting events or from child abuse and most patients are boys who are younger than 16 years. Commotio cordis' prognosis depends on the availability of cardiac defibrillation. Automatic defibrillators at ...

The aim of the study was to investigate the motives for following sporting events and their dependence upon gender and age of spectators. The study was based on a survey of 1727 adult Slovenes. According to the results the most important motives could be classified in the category of Dionysian values. This means that the role of sport in a spectator's life is not that influential; it is much mo...

Wearable sensor systems require an interactive and communicative interface for the user to interpret data in a meaningful way. The development of adaptive personalization features in a visualization tool for such systems can convey a more meaningful picture to the user of the system. In this paper, a visualization tool called Visualization in Team Scenarios (VTS), which can be used by a coach t...

Every day 645 million Twitter users generate approximately 58 million tweets. This motivates the question if it is possible to generate a summary of events from this rich set of tweets only. Key challenges in post summarization from microblog posts include circumnavigating spam and conversational posts. In this study, we present a novel technique called lexi-temporal clustering (LTC), which ide...