Our project involved the classification of different tennis shot types and running around the tennis court. For this purpose, our data was acquired from MATLAB’s mobile application featuring sensors that collected acceleration, orientation, angular velocity and position data where our cellphones simulated the role of the tennis racket.
An MLP model was trained on the data for predicting 3 classes "forehand", "backhand", "walk/run".
The shot types classified were the forehand and the backhand.
The forehand is a type of shot in tennis and other racket sports, made by swinging the racket across one's body with the hand moving palm-first. It is a groundstroke where the ball has bounced before it is struck. The inner part of the hand (palm) faces the ball during a forehand shot. In tennis, it is the opposite of a backhand shot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forehand).
The backhand is a stroke used in most racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and pickleball. It is a way of hitting the ball in which the back of the hand holding the racket is turned in the direction you want to hit the ball. The term refers to a groundstroke, except in the phrase backhand volley. The backhand is a shot made with the back of the hand turned in the direction of movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhand).
Read more about our project here: https://github.com/VaggM/TennisShotClassifier/blob/main/tennis_shot_classifier.pdf
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