At CEATEC 2024, the Fujitsu booth-themed “Vision AI Park*” showcased AI as a trusted assistant that enhances people’s lives in sports activities, healthcare, and tradition. The exhibition highlighted how Fujitsu’s Human Motion Analytics (HMA)* expertise leverages markerless pc imaginative and prescient, AI, and information to improve sports activities efficiency, enhance well-being, and protect conventional artwork.
Guests skilled firsthand how AI may digitize human actions and ship actionable data immediately, opening new avenues in every subject. Fujitsu’s AI-centric strategy goals to drive financial progress and enhance high quality of life by enabling a future the place people and AI collaborate, complement one another, and advance collectively.
Sports activities Zone: AI and Knowledge Rework Coaching for Peak Efficiency
At CEATEC, I skilled the Fujitsu interactive basketball sales space powered by Fujitsu’s Imaginative and prescient AI x Sports activities expertise that doesn’t use any markers or wearable sensors
Since winning the W League playoff championship in April 2024*, the Fujitsu Purple Wave grew to become Japan’s prime girls’s basketball group.
At CEATEC 2024, Fujitsu collaborated with the Purple Wave group to create an interactive basketball sales space. Fujitsu’s Human Movement Analytics (HMA) expertise makes use of AI to research guests’ taking pictures types, providing real-time enchancment recommendation primarily based on Purple Wave gamers’ information. Guests may examine their approach to elite athletes and observe enhancements by AI-guided suggestions.
I attempted the demo, and I used to be in a position to make some enhancements to my taking pictures kind. Right here is the way it labored:
The demo occurred on {a partially} digital basketball courtroom, the place individuals like myself may be part of Fujitsu’s Purple Wave, the ladies’s skilled basketball group, and take free throws.
Initially, I took a follow shot with my pure kind. Fujitsu’s HMA expertise then captured and analyzed my actions, evaluating my kind information to that of a Purple Wave participant. This allowed for detailed, real-time suggestions on areas needing enchancment.
After my follow shot, I obtained suggestions from the Purple Wave group’s coach, Shota Goto, primarily based on Human Movement Analytics expertise, to assist me enhance my second shot.
Subsequent, a digital coach supplied tailor-made recommendation primarily based on the skilled participant’s information, highlighting particular changes to get nearer to the Purple Wave commonplace.
With this steerage, I used to be given one other likelihood to shoot. This time, the expertise was intensified with a simulated sport situation. I wore the group’s #90 jersey, and a commentator set the stage: “The rating is tied at 89-89, with #90 making an attempt a free throw to win the sport.” This added an exciting sense of strain.
Afterward, Human Movement Analytics’s high-precision skeletal evaluation allowed me to view and examine my motion information from each pictures. The exact side-by-side evaluation made it straightforward to know the influence of the coach’s steerage on my kind. This demo demonstrated Fujitsu’s modern strategy to sports activities analytics, making it potential to visualise, alter, and refine bodily efficiency in real-time.
A Fujitsu spokesperson defined that Human Movement Analytics expertise, a part of the Fujitsu Kozuchi AI platform for Imaginative and prescient x Sports activities, goals to help coaching for athletes and younger gamers excited about basketball and soccer. I’m satisfied that the expertise might be utilized to all sports activities sooner or later.
This high-precision, markerless skeletal evaluation expertise already powers the Fujitsu Judging Assist System, which the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation has utilized in competitions since 2019 and throughout all ten apparatuses since 2023.
Healthcare Zone: Supporting Thoughts and Physique Well being with AI-Pushed Insights
Within the Healthcare Zone, Fujitsu launched a Pilates and yoga sales space to display AI’s position in bettering total well-being. The AI analyzes guests’ roll-down actions, a Pilates train that signifies steadiness functionality. Primarily based on an evaluation of backbone vary of movement and motion velocity, guests obtain customized steerage from knowledgeable teacher to refine their posture and actions.
Though we didn’t expertise this demo firsthand, Fujitsu representatives defined the expertise and shared plans for deploying it in collaboration with yoga studios.
Tradition Zone: Passing Down Conventional Methods with AI and Knowledge Assist
Fujitsu offered AI-assisted Noh performances within the Tradition Zone in partnership with the Nohgaku Performers’ Affiliation. Noh, a classical Japanese theater artwork kind, depends on exact actions and expressions.
Fujitsu’s AI expertise allows guests to visualise their very own actions and positions, evaluating them to these {of professional} Noh actors. Guests then obtain knowledgeable steerage on Noh’s refined, expressive strategies from famend Noh artist Yoshimasa Kanze.
We attended a Noh teacher’s efficiency, and the Fujitsu spokesperson defined that one of many best challenges in studying Noh is visualizing the exact place of the limbs, that are hidden by the normal voluminous costumes. Fujitsu’s AI-driven Human Movement Analytics (HMA) expertise permits correct physique movement seize and skeletal visualization, permitting novice Noh college students to appropriate their posture proper after follow.
A Noh teacher’ performs on the Fujitsu sales space whereas the Fujitsu Kozuchi AI platform displays his actions utilizing Human Movement Analytics after which visualizes the skeleton positions with excessive precision.
Past Sports activities, Wellness, and Tradition, the Fujitsu Kozuchi AI Platform Goals to Assist Folks Throughout Various Fields
The Human Movement Analytics (HMA) expertise is a part of Kozuchi, Fujitsu’s AI platform launched in April 2023. Kozuchi, which integrates Fujitsu’s AI Imaginative and prescient with HMA, affords structured AI companies, together with generative AI, serving as a trusted assistant across seven key primary areas. With greater than 30 years of analysis and seven,000 use instances, Fujitsu’s AI Imaginative and prescient, by its Uvance mannequin, seeks to handle societal points throughout industries whereas enhancing productiveness and creativity.
At CEATEC, Human Movement Analytics , a part of Fujitsu’s Imaginative and prescient AI, was highlighted as a strong instrument for digitizing and analyzing human actions. Utilizing Kozuchi’s superior algorithms and high-precision skeletal evaluation, Human Movement Analytics (HMA) delivers extremely correct movement information evaluation, initially developed for AI vision-assisted scoring in gymnastics and adopted by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in October 2023 for all ten apparatuses. Fujitsu’s Judging Support System (JSS)* has been developed in collaboration with FIG since 2017 and began to formally assist judges for 4 apparatuses on the 2019 Stuttgart Creative Gymnastics World Championships*.
Fujitsu asserts that its skeletal evaluation expertise ranks among the many world’s most exact, with purposes spanning sports activities, healthcare, leisure, retail, and manufacturing sectors. By Kozuchi, HMA facilitates enhanced efficiency, refined expertise, and optimized motion, creating new insights into human movement. That is in alignment with Fujitsu’s imaginative and prescient for 2030 to “turn out to be a expertise firm that realizes web constructive by digital companies […] and to ship a web constructive influence to society by company actions,” as acknowledged by CEO Takahito Tokita in Fujitsu’s Know-how and Service Imaginative and prescient 2024 doc (page 4 – in English).
*Hyperlinks to Japanese webpages – it is advisable to use Google Translate to learn them in English
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