VideoForce: Enabling Remote Sports Injury Assessment
- Challenge:AI for Societal Good Challenge
- Phase:Concept
- Team Lead:Dr Ciaran Simms, Trinity College Dublin
- Team Co-Lead:Prof. Aljosa Smolic, Trinity College Dublin
- Societal Impact Champion:Garreth Farrell, Leinster Rugby
Injuries associated with contact sports, such as rugby, create a significant societal burden and can act as a barrier to participation and can prevent the full benefits of getting involved in these sports from being realised. To increase the safety of these sports, rapid assessment of collisions is needed to guide injury prevention strategies.
The VideoForce team proposes to develop an AI-based approach that can be applied to sports video footage to assess collisions. In this way coaches and players will gain quantitative information to guide injury prevention strategies.