Deep Multi-Scale Residual Connected Neural Network Model for Intelligent Athlete Balance Control Ability Evaluation.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

Athlete balance control ability plays an important role in different types of sports. Accurate and efficient evaluations of the balance control abilities can significantly improve the athlete management performance. With the rapid development of the athlete training field, intelligent and automatic evaluations have been highly demanded in the past years. This study proposes a deep learning-based athlete balance control ability evaluation method through processing the time-series movement pressure measurement data. An end-to-end model structure is proposed, which directly analyzes the raw data and provides the evaluation results, which largely facilitates practical utilization. A multi-scale feature extraction scheme is employed, by exploring the learned features in different scales. A residual connected neural network architecture is further proposed. By using the short-cut connection, the deep neural network model can be more efficiently trained. Experiments on the real athlete balance control ability tests are carried out for validations. Through comparisons with different related methods, the results show the proposed deep multi-scale residual connected neural network model is well suited for the athlete balance control ability evaluation problem, and promising for actual applications in the real scenarios.

Authors

  • Nannan Xu
    Sports Training Institute, Shenyang Sport University, Shenyang 110115, China.
  • Xin Wang
    Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science & Technology (Northeast Forestry University), Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China.
  • Yangming Xu
    School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
  • Tianyu Zhao
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4921 Parkview Place, Campus Box 8224, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
  • Xiang Li
    Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.