Remote Mentoring
Vannotea has enormous potential as a tool to enable geographically distributed coaches to collaboratively analyse and improve athlete's performances. Discussions are underway with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) about the software's deployment and application within their Performance Analysis Unit.
The Performance Analysis Unit, which aims to help coaches make effective use of IT in order to enhance athletes' development, is exploring the use of Vannotea to assist coaches in disparate locations.
This project has been using archival video from the AIS to test Vannotea's usability and applicability for collaborative performance analysis of elite Olympic swimmers. Vannotea has a user friendly search, browse and retrieval interfaces to the video database of swimmers performances during training and competition. For example, the database can be searched on swimmer's name, coach's name, event, lap number etc. It enables coaches to automatically segment the swimming videos into laps or selected clips and analyse and annotate the content using swimming terms and concepts, drawn from a predefined ontology.