rameter showed that this parameter in most cases is
generated with an error below 17%, with the smallest
error observed in P
1
for Seq. 2 (δ = 1%), and the lar-
gest in P
2
for Seq. 1 (δ = 23%).
The presented method also allows for an observa-
tion of the analysed parameter changes over time. Fi-
gure 5 presents the parameters of hurdle clearance as
a function of time (frames). The key points of hurdle
clearance have been marked on the charts (P
1
—P
3
).
The charts present the mean value of the parameters
for 10 repetitions of the algorithm, additionally a mo-
ving average filter with the window equal to three was
used. The analysis showed that the hurdle clearance
parameters in the individual sequences are close to
each other, which indicates the repeatability of the
movement performed by the competitor.
4 CONCLUSIONS
This paper has proposed a human motion tracking
method that can be deployed and run on a mobile de-
vice. The method can be used by coaches for the eva-
luation of the athlete’s technique. This system was
tested on two mobile development platforms and three
image sequences of an athlete clearing a hurdle which
were recorded using a smartphone. In the performed
experiments, the hurdle clearance parameters were es-
timated based on the human poses obtained. An ana-
lysis of the errors received showed that the most accu-
rately estimated parameter was the height of the cen-
tre of mass h, while the biggest errors were observed
for the bending angle of the knee for the trail leg α.
Our future work will focus on improving the pro-
posed method and preparing the application for the
Android platform.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been partially supported by the Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the
research project ”Development of Academic Sport”
in the years 2016-2019, project No. N RSA4 00554.
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