Kingston, Ontario, Canada / October 15th, 2024 / HAS-Motion today welcomes Fujitsu as a new partner for the company, reflecting both parties’ commitment to harmonize Fujitsu’s Human Motion Analytics (HMA) technology with HAS-Motion’s software applications, Visual3D and Sift.
Fujitsu’s HMA technology, in development since 2016, is a type of markerless motion capture, where human movement is estimated directly from video. HMA recognizes actions as a series of connected movements in 4D (three physical dimensions plus time), allowing for complex movements to be identified. The HMA was built on technology from the Judging Support System (JSS) which Fujitsu developed in collaboration with the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and which was adopted for use with all 10 apparatuses at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in 2023. Both HMA and JSS have been featured by several media outlets including CNN, The Verge, Forbes, and R&D World.
Visual3D, acquired by HAS-Motion earlier this year, is the gold standard for flexible biomechanical modelling and analysis while integrating with most major motion capture vendors. Sift was released in March in response to the increasing prevalence of large data sets in biomechanics, which are collected by modern technologies like Fujitsu’s HMA. HAS-Motion’s partnership with Fujitsu ensures that HMA outputs the 3D motion capture data necessary to build complex biomechanical models and that this output can be seamlessly ingested by Visual3D and Sift, with a number of model-building and analysis steps automated for users.
Scott Selbie, CEO of HAS-Motion, comments:
“We firmly believe that human movement provides valuable insights into a person’s health, quality of life, and their capacity to achieve their dreams. The broader the audience for accurate measurement and analysis of this movement, the more significant the impact we can have. Welcoming Fujitsu as a new HAS-Motion partner is a sign of both parties’ commitment to incorporate Fujitsu’s HMA technology with our Visual3D and Sift applications. This collaboration will empower researchers, clinicians, and sports scientists globally to engage with biomechanical analysis in new ways, bringing us closer to a future where this analysis enhances lives on a daily basis.”
Hidenori Fujiwara, Head of the Human Digital Twin Division at Fujitsu Limited, comments:
“At Fujitsu we aim to deliver services to enhance people’s quality of life through collaboration with various partners. One way we accomplish this is through Fujitsu Uvance, which delivers cross-industrial solutions that address business challenges and solve societal issues. Fujitsu’s HMA is an example of this as an extension of the technology we developed for our Judging Support System, which uses AI to support the judging of artistic gymnastics competitions. Together with HAS-Motion we will jointly create new values globally through the seamless integration of Fujitsu’s HMA technology, a data analysis platform delivering valuable real-time results with highly accurate, markerless, 4-dimensional motion capture, with HAS-Motion’s global standard software applications, Visual3D and Sift.”
Moving forward, HAS-Motion and Fujitsu are both committed to broadening the reach of human motion analytics in society, supporting innovations across a variety of fields including health care, ergonomics, and sports performance.
About HAS-Motion: Located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, HAS-Motion is committed to helping our users across every continent (except Antarctica) to understand human motion by enhancing the value of 3D motion capture systems. HAS-Motion’s Visual3D software is the gold standard for biomechanical analysis, giving users complete flexibility to model and analyse motion capture data from many different vendors. Sift, released this year, is a new application for users who are managing, curating, and analysing large biomechanical data sets. Together these applications let users get right to their research while ensuring reproducible results that stand the test of time. Learn more at www.has-motion.ca.