Personalized AI Sports Coaching Assistant

An AI-powered sports coaching assistant designed to deliver personalized performance insights for players and teams. Using computer vision and machine learning, it automatically analyzes gameplay, tracks movements, and classifies sports types. The system helps coaches and athletes make data-driven decisions for faster improvement and smarter training.

Platform Developed

Overview

This platform uses YOLO, EasyOCR, and InceptionNet to automate sports analysis, extracting performance metrics, tracking players, and classifying game types across basketball, football, and tennis. It eliminates manual video review, providing scalable, real-time sports intelligence.

Problem

Sports organizations and analysts rely on manual video review, leading to a process that is time-consuming and inconsistent for extracting critical performance insights
There is a growing need for AI tools that can automatically detect players, track movements, recognize jersey numbers, and classify game types across multiple sports

Solution

Multi-Sport Detection & OCR Integration: Used YOLO models and EasyOCR to detect players and accurately recognize jersey numbers across basketball and football videos
Team Classification & Tracking: Applied color-based KMeans clustering and YOLO + ByteTrack to classify teams and consistently track player movements in ice hockey and football
Tennis-Specific Analysis: Deployed YOLOv12n for tennis player and ball tracking, with additional logic to calculate speed metrics from positional data
Sport Classification via Deep Learning: Trained an InceptionNet model to automatically classify the sports type (e.g., Soccer, Basketball, Tennis) from raw video inputs

Key Business Outcomes

Comprehensive CV Model Performance: Achieved accurate real-time detection, jersey OCR, and object tracking across diverse sports scenarios
Proven Model Versatility: Validated YOLO’s adaptability for multi-sport analytics and integrated deep learning classification
Foundation for Scalable Sports Intelligence: Demonstrated scalable AI capabilities for building future real-time, analytics-driven sports platforms

Technology

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