A systematic survey of martial art using motion capture technologies: the importance of extrinsic feedback

Abstract

The number of research papers on Motion Capture technologies published in conferences and journals has been rapidly increasing due to the emerging of new technologies, software and hardware which create new challenges and opportunities for Martial Arts research. Current trend of the Martial Arts using Motion Capture technologies (MAMoCap) researches consists of phases of MoCap-Processing and Post-MoCap-Processing; contexts of algorithms, performance and system development; and feedbacks of intrinsic and extrinsic. The purpose of this paper is to study and explore the potential future trend of research and publications pertaining to MAMoCap researches. A systematic survey of research publications was conducted through the topic of Martial Art (MA) and Motion Capture (MoCap) in order to retrieve the scientific articles published in FOUR (4) established publishers including SPRINGERLINK, SCIENCEDIRECT, IEEE and ACM. Search refinements were done by the inclusions criteria of document types of academic journals and conference proceedings; and by the exceptions criteria of letters, editorials and book reviews. The findings show that only 27% of the publications have been selected while other 73% have been classified as irrelevant contents due to none significance and relevance to the MAMoCap researches. Analysis on the research phases, contexts and feedbacks has been conducted and discussed in detailed for pertaining knowledge gaps and future research agenda. Based on the preliminary study, a framework of EFs-Based Automated Evaluation System for the martial arts should be proposed.

Evaluating Martial Arts Punching Kinematics Using a Vision and Inertial Sensing System

“…This is in line with our objectives to develop a system for computer aided training and analysis. Research presented in [ 23 , 24 ] highlights the use of motion capture systems to analyze 3D human pose and its benefits in augmenting martial arts training. Extensively, vision based sensing systems have been used in other areas of sporting such as measuring kinematic properties of weightlifters and identifying fine differences in their snatch techniques [ 25 ].…”

Optical motion capture dataset of selected techniques in beginner and advanced Kyokushin karate athletes

“…Based on the research cited above, the importance of human motion analysis in combat sports is evident, with both kinematic and kinetic analysis required 19 . Kinematic analysis is necessary to identify the ranges of motion and speeds required when executing different phases of the movement patterns.…”

Content-Based Management of Human Motion Data: Survey and Challenges

“…Several studies discuss the possibilities of multi-modal motion recognition [5], [9], [10], focusing on the fusion of skeleton data with inertial sensor data [11], [12] or RGB and depth modalities [6]. Other works map the action recognition methods in specific application domains, e.g., gait recognition [11], martial arts [13], rehabilitation [14], or sports [15]. All these surveys focus on the processing of short pre-segmented motions, leaving aside the inherent continuous character of skeleton-data recordings.…”

“…All these surveys focus on the processing of short pre-segmented motions, leaving aside the inherent continuous character of skeleton-data recordings. Several studies also cover skeleton-data acquisition approaches [5], [8], [10], [12], [13] or summarize publiclyavailable datasets [6]- [10].…”

“…In professional sporting, motion processing applications typically focus on posterior analysis and evaluation of athletic performances, e.g., in dancing [104], martial arts [13], golf [105], diving, or figure-skating [106]. Real-time and detection applications involve prediction of the future tennisshot direction [107], detection of swimming strokes [108], or stride-, jump-and landing phases of a long and triple jump [109].…”