Velocity and stroke rate reconstruction of canoe sprint team boats based on panned and zoomed video recordings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22941v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:31:30 GMT
• Title: Velocity and stroke rate reconstruction of canoe sprint team boats based on panned and zoomed video recordings
• Authors: Julian Ziegler, Daniel Matthes, Finn Gerdts, Patrick Frenzel, Torsten Warnke, Matthias Englert, Tina Koevari, Mirco Fuchs,
• Abstract summary: Pacing strategies, defined by velocity and stroke rate profiles, are essential for peak performance in canoe sprint.<n>This paper presents an extended framework for reconstructing performance metrics from panned and zoomed video recordings.
• Score: 3.0542135376860524
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Pacing strategies, defined by velocity and stroke rate profiles, are essential for peak performance in canoe sprint. While GPS is the gold standard for analysis, its limited availability necessitates automated video-based solutions. This paper presents an extended framework for reconstructing performance metrics from panned and zoomed video recordings across all sprint disciplines (K1-K4, C1-C2) and distances (200m-500m). Our method utilizes YOLOv8 for buoy and athlete detection, leveraging the known buoy grid to estimate homographies. We generalized the estimation of the boat position by means of learning a boat-specific athlete offset using a U-net based boat tip calibration. Further, we implement a robust tracking scheme using optical flow to adapt to multi-athlete boat types. Finally, we introduce methods to extract stroke rate information from either pose estimations or the athlete bounding boxes themselves. Evaluation against GPS data from elite competitions yields a velocity RRMSE of 0.020 +- 0.011 (rho = 0.956) and a stroke rate RRMSE of 0.022 +- 0.024 (rho = 0.932). The methods provide coaches with highly accurate, automated feedback without requiring on-boat sensors or manual annotation.

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