A real-time badminton action detection
system, consisting of: a
video recording module configured to continuously
record video images at a
frame rate of at least thirty frames per second; a
pose estimation processing unit configured to detect and output two-dimensional skeletal
landmark coordinates for a variety of
body joints, including at least wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles, from each video frame; a Motion Bidirectional
Encoder Representation
Transformer (Motion-BERT) configured to receive sequential skeleton
landmark coordinates over a defined time window and
encode motion trajectories using multi-head self-attention mechanisms across past and future frames; and a classification controller module operationally coupled to the Motion-BERT, wherein the classification controller module comprises a dense neural network with a softmax output layer configured to generate real-time probability distributions over a variety of badminton-specific action classes, the end-to-
end system being configured to produce recognition results with a
processing latency of less than 100 milliseconds; and wherein the
video recording module comprises a high-speed
digital camera with a wide-angle lens positioned at a point on the perimeter of the court, the camera being calibrated with intrinsic and extrinsic parameters for perspective correction, and wherein the
system includes a calibration routine that aligns detected skeletal landmarks with a reference
badminton court coordinate
system.