Software helps S'pore athletes watch the ball

11/28/2012 Alywin Chew, TODAY (Singapore)

SINGAPORE - The national women's table tennis players may have shed many years of blood, sweat and tears preparing for last August's London Olympics.

Written by Alywin Chew, TODAY (Singapore)

3D Image of field
3D Image of field
3D Image of field
SINGAPORE - The national women's table tennis players may have shed many years of blood, sweat and tears preparing for last August's London Olympics.

But they also had some help from a state-of-the-art object tracking and computerised sporting analysis software program called AutoScout to help them reach their peak before leaving for London.

According to the Singapore Sports Institute (SSI), AutoScout was used by the national table tennis coaches to generate video footage and statistical information about their paddlers' playing styles ...

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The Advanced Digital Sciences Center is a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research center in Singapore. It is led by Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science faculty at the University of Illinois. ADSC focuses on innovations in information technology.


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This story was published November 28, 2012.