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Use of OpenCap with rugby scrummaging

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:22 am
by harrypowell118
Name: Harry Powell
Email: hxp127@student.bham.ac.uk
field: To whom this may concern, I have been advised to use this piece of software for my dissertation at uni though, I don't quite know how it can be applicable to my dissertation. I was wondering whether this software/equipment could be used pitchside to analyse the angles of a scrum in rugby. My dissertation is analysing the biomechanics of a scrum and this piece of technology could very much help me yield results.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Harry Powell

Re: Use of OpenCap with rugby scrummaging

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 12:43 pm
by suhlrich
Hi Harry,

OpenCap can currently only analyze one person at a time, which would make it not work great in this situation. Many human mesh reconstruction algorithms could give you SMPL body models of many people that you could potentially use.

Scott