Dr Wilton Fok (left) was awarded HK$3.9 million from the Innovation Technology Fund Better Living Fund for the development of Artificial Intelligence for Drowning Detection and Swimmer Performance Analysis System.
Dr Wilton Fok, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and his team was awarded HK$3.9 million from the Innovation Technology Fund Better Living Fund for the development of Artificial Intelligence for Drowning Detection and Swimmer Performance Analysis System. The technology will be deployed in the new swimming pool in two schools, Mansung College and Fung Kai No.1 Secondary School.
With the help of artificial intelligence, computer vision, human pose estimation algorithm and deep learning, an AI system is expected to be implement in swimming pools to analyse swimmers’ posture for drowning detection. Surface or underwater drowning situation could be detected by ceiling cameras and underwater pool-side cameras. The swimming posture motion data could be analysed for the improvement of swimmers’ performance.
Dr Fok said, “With the help of this system, not only the safety of swimming pools can be enhanced, but also fosters the artificial intelligence research development for human posture analysis.”
Surface or underwater drowning situation could be detected by the ceiling cameras.