Bridging the Gap: Doubles Badminton Analysis with Singles-Trained Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13507v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:45:15 GMT
• Title: Bridging the Gap: Doubles Badminton Analysis with Singles-Trained Models
• Authors: Seungheon Baek, Jinhyuk Yun,
• Abstract summary: badminton is one of the fastest racket sports in the world.<n>Previous research has mainly focused on singles due to the challenges in data availability and multi-person tracking.<n>This work establishes a foundation for doubles-specific datasets to enhance understanding of this predominant yet understudied format of the fast racket sport.
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• Abstract: Badminton is known as one of the fastest racket sports in the world. Despite doubles matches being more prevalent in international tournaments than singles, previous research has mainly focused on singles due to the challenges in data availability and multi-person tracking. To address this gap, we designed an approach that transfers singles-trained models to doubles analysis. We extracted keypoints from the ShuttleSet single matches dataset using ViT-Pose and embedded them through a contrastive learning framework based on ST-GCN. To improve tracking stability, we incorporated a custom multi-object tracking algorithm that resolves ID switching issues from fast and overlapping player movements. A Transformer-based classifier then determines shot occurrences based on the learned embeddings. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of extending pose-based shot recognition to doubles badminton, broadening analytics capabilities. This work establishes a foundation for doubles-specific datasets to enhance understanding of this predominant yet understudied format of the fast racket sport.

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