VIRTUAL REALITY BOXING SIMULATOR BY DIGITAL VISION

In partnership with the École de technologie supérieure, Thomas Romeas develops a virtual reality boxing simulator as a training tool for elite boxers. Using numerical vision methods, video footage of elite boxers’ movements is transformed into 3D kinematics and embedded within a virtual reality engine to provide an agile and interactive simulator.

Principal investigators

• Hossein Feiz, Ph.D. student, École de technologie supérieure
• David Labbé, professor, École de technologie supérieure
• Sheldon Andrews, professor, École de technologie supérieure
• Jocelyn Faubert, professor, Université de Montréal
• Thomas Romeas, neuroscientist, INS Québec; associate professor, Université de Montréal

Period: 2020–2024
Funding: Mitcas, OTP

DIVE ANALYSIS BY DIGITAL VISION

Working with researchers from the École de Technologie Supérieure, INS Québec is developing a tool that uses machine learning to assess the performance of elite divers using video. The video analysis does not require body markers or accelerometers.

[In French] – Radio-Canada | Découverte – Faire parler les images (Radio-Canada, September 27, 2020)
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Principal investigators :

• Ramon Figueiredo Pessoa, Ph.D. student, École de Technologie Supérieure
• Carlos Vazquez, professor, École de Technologie Supérieure
• Rachid Aissaoui, professor, École de Technologie Supérieure
• Mathieu Charbonneau, biomechanics specialist, INS Québec

Period: 2018-2021
Funding: OTP, Mitacs

LONG-HAUL TRAVEL APP

INS Québec is developing a smartphone app that can inform and advise athletes, coaches and other training personnel regarding strategies to reduce the negative effects of trans-meridian travel.

Principal investigators :

• François Bieuzen, exercise physiologist, INS Québec; associate professor, Université Laval
• Phénix Agence Web
• Jeremy Olson, Ph.D. student, McGill University
• Sarah Noël, industrial designer
• Gabriel Legault, undergraduate student, Université Laval

Period: 2017–2019
Funding: MÉES (PRIDI)

PROPULSION IN CYCLICAL SPORTS

INS Québec has developed and empirically tested advanced techniques to analyze the accelerometric measurements of the propulsive phases in cyclical sports such as para-swimming. This work has led to a user-friendly feedback tool for coaches.

Publication

Science Direct – Instantaneous velocity estimation for the four swimming strokes using a 3-axis accelerometer: Validation on paralympic athletes
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Principal investigators:

• Mathieu Charbonneau, biomechanics specialist, INS Québec
• Julien Clément, performance analyst, INS Québec

Period: 2018-2019
Funding: MÉQ (PRIDI)

PROTECTIVE HELMET FOR SHORT-TRACK SPEED SKATERS

In collaboration with a research team from McGill University, INS Québec is studying the issue of concussions in short-track speed skating, in particular by carrying out an epidemiological analysis of the wounds and conducting impact tests on helmets and measuring the effects of falls on the brain using computer models. The study should lead to the development of a new helmet prototype that meets the specific needs of short-track speed skaters.

Principal investigators :

• Dr. Suzanne Leclerc, Medical Director, INS Québec, clinical associate professor, Université de Montréal
• Thomas Romeas, neuroscientist, INS Québec, associate professor, Université de Montréal
• David Pearsall, professor, McGill University
• Daniel Aponte, Ph.D. student, McGill University
• Matthew Kelly, masters’s student, McGill University
• Taylor Léger, masters’s student, McGill University

Period: 2018-2021
Funding: MÉQ(PRIDI), Mitacs

RED-S

Erik Sesbreno appreciates the prevalence of low energy availability among male volleyball players and its effects on jumper’s knee, cognitive function and countermovement jump performance.

Principal investigator:

• Erik Sesbreno, sport nutrition lead, INS Québec

Period: 2019–2020
Funding: MÉQ (PRIDI)