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We are very exited that CAMERA Co-Investigator Steffi Colyer and CAMERA Co-Director Eamonn O’Neill will be heading up a brand new Bath Beacon with the Department for Health’s Keith Stokes. A second wave of Bath Beacons has been announced supporting further multidisciplinary collaborative networks which will address the UKRI strategic themes outlined...
This year’s International Society of Biomechanics in Sport conference took place from 12th to 16th July in Milwaukee, USA. CAMERA Co-Investigator Steffi Colyer and CAMERA PhD researcher Julie Emmerson headed west to present their research at this prestigious annual conference. Steffi, who works in collaboration with UK Sport and British...
New research by Dr Pooya Soltani from CAMERA has used motion capture technology to assess the accuracy of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technologies in football. The study suggests that VAR is useful for preventing obvious mistakes but is currently not precise enough to give accurate judgements every time. VAR was...
This week CAMERA studio technician Pooya Soltani presented his research at the 13th International Congress on Sports Science (Physical Activity and Modern Era). The aim of the congress is to bring together academic and administrative members of the world of sports science and to exchange the latest fundamental, applied and...
While many of us were watching the action at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, CAMERA Research Associate Laurie Needham and CAMERA PhD student Mike Muckelt (Uni of Bath/BBSA funded) headed off to attend a BBSA (British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association) training camp in Sigulda, Latvia. The facility at Sigulda has...
A collaboration that started a decade ago between CAMERA Co-Investigator Dr Steffi Colyer and the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association is helping to support atheletes to succeed at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Some of the latest EPSRC-funded research draws on computer science expertise from CAMERA in which British Skeleton...
We are really excited to hear that CAMERA Research Associates Laurie Needham, Logan Wade and Murray Evans have had abstracts accepted at the Virtual XXVII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics in Stockholm. Laurie, Logan and Murray’s work focuses on how applications of markerless motion capture may significantly reduce...
Former CAMERA Co-Investigator Dr Aki Salo, a Reader in the Department for Health until 2019, has pledged his UK assets to the University in his Will. The assets include a flat in Bath’s city centre. During his time at Bath, Aki specialised in research in sports biomechanics and his legacy...
On Friday 30th April we were thrilled to welcome academics, students, partners and guests from across our network to our CAMERA 2.0 Launch event. If you missed the event you can watch the recording to hear Centre Directors, theme leads and industry partners outline the huge achievements of CAMERA to...
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