Surfer – MICROSOFT
PARIS, August 16 (Benin News / EP) –
USA Surfing, the United States Surfing Team, and Microsoft have worked together with the goal of using the technology of the Artificial intelligence (IA) to improve performance and reduce injury in athletes.
The artificial intelligence solution that Microsoft has developed for USA Surfing analyzes the images recorded by Internet users. surfers to determine the strengths and weaknesses of their movements. once morest external elements such as the surfboard and the wave. It does this using Azure Cognitive Services.
From “thousands of videos” from the World Surf LeagueMicrosoft’s AI makes it possible to study, on the one hand, the joints of a surfer’s body to “gather important data on their maneuvers, posture and range of motion”.
On the other, the surfboard, to obtain information “regarding how the athlete’s technique, the currents of the sea and the board itself work together”, while the waves allow to discover “the forces that drive athletes every moment,” Microsoft explained in a statement.
The objective of this application of artificial intelligence is to performance improvement of surfers and injury and accident prevention.
