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Horse Jumping and Dressage Training Activity Detection Using Accelerometer Data

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Analyzing equestrian show jumping and dressage training movements can be greatly useful during training, but existing technologies fall short in terms of user convenience and detection of major horse training activities. As a result, attaching sensors to the horse’s legs could give a...

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Autores principales: Eerdekens, Anniek, Deruyck, Margot, Fontaine, Jaron, Damiaans, Bert, Martens, Luc, De Poorter, Eli, Govaere, Jan, Plets, David, Joseph, Wout
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8532712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34679925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11102904
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author Eerdekens, Anniek
Deruyck, Margot
Fontaine, Jaron
Damiaans, Bert
Martens, Luc
De Poorter, Eli
Govaere, Jan
Plets, David
Joseph, Wout
author_facet Eerdekens, Anniek
Deruyck, Margot
Fontaine, Jaron
Damiaans, Bert
Martens, Luc
De Poorter, Eli
Govaere, Jan
Plets, David
Joseph, Wout
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Analyzing equestrian show jumping and dressage training movements can be greatly useful during training, but existing technologies fall short in terms of user convenience and detection of major horse training activities. As a result, attaching sensors to the horse’s legs could give a simple solution that is accessible to all riders. However, there is a scarcity of research on automatic classification of horse jumping and dressage training movements. Thus, the goal of this study was to use an advanced machine learning algorithm to categorize leg accelerometer data from the majority of dressage and jumping training motions. This is the first study to show that jumping and dressage training movements can be accurately identified and the velocity of different gaits and paces can be estimated with a minimal error. ABSTRACT: Equine training activity detection will help to track and enhance the performance and fitness level of riders and their horses. Currently, the equestrian world is eager for a simple solution that goes beyond detecting basic gaits, yet current technologies fall short on the level of user friendliness and detection of main horse training activities. To this end, we collected leg accelerometer data of 14 well-trained horses during jumping and dressage trainings. For the first time, 6 jumping training and 25 advanced horse dressage activities are classified using specifically developed models based on a neural network. A jumping training could be classified with a high accuracy of 100 %, while a dressage training could be classified with an accuracy of 96.29%. Assigning the dressage movements to 11, 6 or 4 superclasses results in higher accuracies of 98.87%, 99.10% and 100%, respectively. Furthermore, during dressage training, the side of movement could be identified with an accuracy of 97.08%. In addition, a velocity estimation model was developed based on the measured velocities of seven horses performing the collected, working, and extended gaits during a dressage training. For the walk, trot, and canter paces, the velocities could be estimated accurately with a low root mean square error of 0.07 m/s, 0.14 m/s, and 0.42 m/s, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-85327122021-10-23 Horse Jumping and Dressage Training Activity Detection Using Accelerometer Data Eerdekens, Anniek Deruyck, Margot Fontaine, Jaron Damiaans, Bert Martens, Luc De Poorter, Eli Govaere, Jan Plets, David Joseph, Wout Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Analyzing equestrian show jumping and dressage training movements can be greatly useful during training, but existing technologies fall short in terms of user convenience and detection of major horse training activities. As a result, attaching sensors to the horse’s legs could give a simple solution that is accessible to all riders. However, there is a scarcity of research on automatic classification of horse jumping and dressage training movements. Thus, the goal of this study was to use an advanced machine learning algorithm to categorize leg accelerometer data from the majority of dressage and jumping training motions. This is the first study to show that jumping and dressage training movements can be accurately identified and the velocity of different gaits and paces can be estimated with a minimal error. ABSTRACT: Equine training activity detection will help to track and enhance the performance and fitness level of riders and their horses. Currently, the equestrian world is eager for a simple solution that goes beyond detecting basic gaits, yet current technologies fall short on the level of user friendliness and detection of main horse training activities. To this end, we collected leg accelerometer data of 14 well-trained horses during jumping and dressage trainings. For the first time, 6 jumping training and 25 advanced horse dressage activities are classified using specifically developed models based on a neural network. A jumping training could be classified with a high accuracy of 100 %, while a dressage training could be classified with an accuracy of 96.29%. Assigning the dressage movements to 11, 6 or 4 superclasses results in higher accuracies of 98.87%, 99.10% and 100%, respectively. Furthermore, during dressage training, the side of movement could be identified with an accuracy of 97.08%. In addition, a velocity estimation model was developed based on the measured velocities of seven horses performing the collected, working, and extended gaits during a dressage training. For the walk, trot, and canter paces, the velocities could be estimated accurately with a low root mean square error of 0.07 m/s, 0.14 m/s, and 0.42 m/s, respectively. MDPI 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8532712/ /pubmed/34679925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11102904 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Joseph, Wout
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8532712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34679925
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11102904
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