Fujitsu’s Imaginative and prescient AI Park at CEATEC 2024: AI-Powered “Human Movement Analytics” (HMA) To Assist Individuals in Sports activities, Wellness, and For Cultural Preservation

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 laptop imaginative and prescient, AI, and knowledge 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 discipline. Fujitsu’s AI-centric strategy goals to drive financial development 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 Remodel 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 Crimson Wave turned Japan’s prime girls’s basketball crew.

At CEATEC 2024, Fujitsu collaborated with the Crimson Wave crew to create an interactive basketball sales space. Fujitsu’s Human Movement Analytics (HMA) expertise makes use of AI to investigate guests’ capturing varieties, providing real-time enchancment recommendation primarily based on Crimson Wave gamers’ knowledge. Guests may evaluate their method to elite athletes and observe enhancements by way of AI-guided suggestions.

I attempted the demo, and I used to be capable of make some enhancements to my capturing kind. Right here is the way it labored:

The demo occurred on {a partially} digital basketball court docket, the place contributors like myself may be part of Fujitsu’s Crimson Wave, the ladies’s skilled basketball crew, and take free throws.

Initially, I took a apply shot with my pure kind. Fujitsu’s HMA expertise then captured and analyzed my actions, evaluating my kind knowledge to that of a Crimson Wave participant. This allowed for detailed, real-time suggestions on areas needing enchancment.

After my apply shot, I obtained suggestions from the Crimson Wave crew’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 knowledge, highlighting particular changes to get nearer to the Crimson Wave normal.

With this steering, I used to be given one other likelihood to shoot. This time, the expertise was intensified with a simulated sport situation. I wore the crew’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 evaluate my motion knowledge from each pictures. The exact side-by-side evaluation made it simple to know the affect of the coach’s steering on my kind. This demo demonstrated Fujitsu’s revolutionary strategy to sports activities analytics, making it potential to visualise, modify, 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 assist coaching for athletes and younger gamers concerned with 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 Help 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 general well-being. The AI analyzes guests’ roll-down actions, a Pilates train that signifies steadiness functionality. Based mostly on an evaluation of backbone vary of movement and motion pace, guests obtain customized steering 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 Strategies with AI and Knowledge Help

Fujitsu introduced 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 professional steering on Noh’s refined, expressive methods from famend Noh artist Yoshimasa Kanze.

We attended a Noh teacher’s efficiency, and the Fujitsu spokesperson defined that one of many biggest challenges in studying Noh is visualizing the exact place of the limbs, that are hidden by the standard 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 apply.

A Noh teacher’ performs on the Fujitsu sales space whereas the Fujitsu Kozuchi AI platform screens 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 Help Individuals 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 way of its Uvance mannequin, seeks to deal with 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 knowledge 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. Via Kozuchi, HMA facilitates enhanced efficiency, refined abilities, and optimized motion, creating new insights into human movement. That is in alignment with Fujitsu’s imaginative and prescient for 2030 to “turn into a expertise firm that realizes internet optimistic by way of digital companies […] and to ship a internet optimistic affect to society by way of company actions,” as said by CEO Takahito Tokita in Fujitsu’s Know-how and Service Imaginative and prescient 2024 doc (page 4 – in English).