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+# 🏸 Racquet Sports Video Analyzer
+
+**PBVision / SwingVision style AI analysis for any racquet sport video.**
+
+Automatically detects rallies, tracks players, classifies shots, and generates complete player performance profiles — from any video angle (portrait or landscape).
+
+## Supported Sports
+| Sport | Ball Tracking | Shot Types | Court Detection |
+|-------|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| 🏸 Badminton | ✅ | 15 types (smash, drop, clear, ...) | ✅ |
+| 🎾 Tennis | ✅ | 12 types (forehand, backhand, serve, ...) | ✅ |
+| 🥒 Pickleball | ✅ | 11 types (dink, third-shot-drop, erne, ...) | ✅ |
+| 🏓 Padel | ✅ | 11 types (bandeja, vibora, bajada, ...) | ✅ |
+
+## What It Does
+
+```
+INPUT: Any racquet sport video (phone recording, broadcast, GoPro)
+                    ↓
+┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
+│  Court Detection (lines, net, homography)│
+│  Player Detection + Tracking (YOLO11)    │
+│  Ball/Shuttle Tracking (CV + Kalman)     │
+│  Hit Detection (ball reversal + wrist)   │
+│  Rally Segmentation (temporal grouping)  │
+│  Shot Classification (VideoMAE)          │
+│  Player Analytics (movement, shots, etc) │
+└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
+                    ↓
+OUTPUT:
+  📼 Annotated video with overlays
+  📊 JSON report with full match analysis
+  🗺️ Player movement heatmaps
+  👤 Player profiles (playstyle, strengths/weaknesses)
+```
+
+## Quick Start
+
+### 1. Install
+```bash
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+### 2. Run on your video
+```bash
+# Auto-detect sport, GPU mode
+python run_analysis.py --video match.mp4
+
+# Specify sport + output dir
+python run_analysis.py --video match.mp4 --sport badminton --output ./my_analysis
+
+# Portrait video from phone (pickleball at the park)
+python run_analysis.py --video phone_recording.mp4 --sport pickleball
+
+# CPU mode (slower but works everywhere)
+python run_analysis.py --video match.mp4 --device cpu
+
+# Fast mode: skip frames + no shot classification
+python run_analysis.py --video match.mp4 --frame-skip 2 --no-shot-classification
+```
+
+### 3. Python API
+```python
+from racquet_sports_analyzer import RacquetSportsAnalyzer, PipelineConfig, Sport
+
+config = PipelineConfig().for_sport(Sport.BADMINTON)
+analyzer = RacquetSportsAnalyzer(config)
+results = analyzer.analyze("match.mp4", output_dir="./output")
+
+# Access results
+print(f"Rallies: {results['match_summary']['total_rallies']}")
+for pid, profile in results['player_profiles'].items():
+    print(f"Player {pid}: {profile['playstyle']} — {profile['rally']['win_rate']:.0%} win rate")
+```
+
+## Output: Player Profile Example
+
+```
+==================================================
+  PLAYER 1 PROFILE
+==================================================
+  Side: Near/Top
+  Playstyle: AGGRESSIVE
+  Time tracked: 142.3s (4269 frames)
+
+  📍 MOVEMENT
+     Distance: 48523px (89.2m)
+     Avg speed: 341 px/s (6.3 m/s)
+     Max speed: 1205 px/s (22.1 m/s)
+     Coverage: 67.2%
+     Dominant side: balanced
+     Idle time: 18.4%
+
+  🏸 SHOTS
+     Total: 47
+     Favorite: smash
+     smash: 31.9%
+     clear: 21.3%
+     drop: 17.0%
+
+  🎯 RALLY PERFORMANCE
+     Played: 23
+     Won: 15 | Lost: 8
+     Win rate: 65%
+     Avg length when winning: 4.2 shots
+     Avg length when losing: 7.1 shots
+
+  💪 BIOMECHANICS
+     Max wrist speed: 28.4 px/frame
+     Avg elbow angle: 142.3°
+
+  📊 PLAYSTYLE BREAKDOWN
+     aggressive         ████████████████░░░░ 62.5%
+     counter-puncher    ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 15.0%
+     all-round          ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 12.5%
+     defensive          ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 10.0%
+
+  ✅ STRENGTHS
+     • Excellent court coverage
+     • Explosive court speed
+     • Strong smash
+     • Diverse shot selection
+     • High win rate (65%)
+     • 3 first-shot winners
+  ⚠️  WEAKNESSES
+     • Struggles in long rallies
+==================================================
+```
+
+## Architecture Deep Dive
+
+### Models Used
+
+| Component | Model | Source | Purpose |
+|-----------|-------|--------|---------|
+| Player Detection + Tracking | YOLO11n-pose + ByteTrack | [ultralytics](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics) | Real-time person detection with pose keypoints |
+| Ball Tracking | Classical CV + Kalman Filter | Built-in | Motion + color + shape filtering for ball detection |
+| Shot Classification | VideoMAE-base | [MCG-NJU/videomae-base](https://huggingface.co/MCG-NJU/videomae-base) | 16-frame clip → shot type label |
+| Pose (high-accuracy) | ViTPose+ | [usyd-community/vitpose-base-simple](https://huggingface.co/usyd-community/vitpose-base-simple) | COCO-17 keypoint estimation (optional upgrade) |
+
+### Pipeline Flow (per frame)
+
+```python
+# 1. Court Detection (every 30 frames)
+court = court_detector.detect(frame)          # lines, net, homography
+
+# 2. Player Detection + Tracking  
+players = player_detector.detect_and_track(frame)  # YOLO11 + ByteTrack
+# → track_id, bbox, center, feet_position, keypoints(17×2)
+
+# 3. Ball Tracking
+ball = ball_tracker.track(frame)              # BG subtraction + color + Kalman
+# → position, velocity, radius, confidence
+
+# 4. Hit Detection (dual signal fusion)
+ball_hit = ball_tracker.detect_hit_event()    # ball direction reversal
+wrist_swing = player_detector.detect_swing(track_id)  # wrist velocity spike
+hit_confirmed = ball_hit OR wrist_swing       # fused signal
+
+# 5. Rally Detection
+rally = rally_detector.process_frame(         # temporal grouping
+    ball_hit, ball_position, players, wrist_swings
+)
+# → rally start/end, shot count, serve team, winner
+
+# 6. Shot Classification (on hit events)
+if hit_confirmed:
+    clip = shot_classifier.extract_hit_clip(frames, hit_frame)  # 3 pre + 12 post
+    shot_type = shot_classifier.classify_from_frames(clip)
+    # → "smash", "drop", "clear", etc.
+
+# 7. Analytics (post-processing)
+for player in tracked_players:
+    profile = analytics.analyze_player(track_history, rallies)
+    # → movement, shots, rally stats, biomechanics, playstyle
+```
+
+### Research Foundation
+
+This system is built on these SOTA papers:
+
+| Paper | What We Use | Citation |
+|-------|------------|----------|
+| **TOTNet** | Ball tracking architecture (3D conv U-Net + optical flow) | [arxiv:2508.09650](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09650) |
+| **WASB** | Multi-sport ball detection baseline (HRNet) | [arxiv:2311.05237](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05237) |
+| **BST** | Shot classification strategy (hit-centered clips + skeleton + trajectory) | [arxiv:2502.21085](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21085) |
+| **BFMD** | Full pipeline design (YOLOX + OC-SORT + TrackNetV2 + VideoMAE) | [arxiv:2603.25533](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25533) |
+| **ByteTrack** | Player tracking (associates all detection boxes incl. low-score) | [arxiv:2110.06864](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06864) |
+| **GTA** | Tracklet post-processing for long videos | [arxiv:2411.08216](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08216) |
+| **VideoMAE** | Action recognition backbone for shot classification | [arxiv:2203.12602](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12602) |
+| **ViTPose+** | High-accuracy pose estimation (81.1 AP on COCO) | [arxiv:2212.04246](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04246) |
+
+## Improving Accuracy
+
+### Level 1: Out-of-the-box (this repo)
+- Classical ball tracking + YOLO detection + zero-shot VideoMAE
+- Good for: quick analysis, recreational play, phone recordings
+
+### Level 2: Fine-tune shot classifier
+```python
+from racquet_sports_analyzer.shot_classifier import ShotClassifierTrainer
+
+trainer = ShotClassifierTrainer(sport=Sport.BADMINTON)
+trainer.train(
+    train_clips=my_labeled_clips,    # list of (16_frames, label_idx) 
+    val_clips=my_val_clips,
+    output_dir="./shot_model_badminton",
+    epochs=30,
+    batch_size=16,
+    push_to_hub=True,
+    hub_model_id="your-username/shot-classifier-badminton",
+)
+```
+- Use ShuttleSet (36K labeled strokes) for badminton
+- Use TenniSet (3.5K strokes) for tennis
+- For pickleball/padel: collect and label 30-50 matches
+
+### Level 3: Train deep ball tracker (TOTNet/WASB)
+- Replace classical CV ball tracker with trained neural network
+- Download TrackNetV2 dataset (26 badminton matches, NCTU)
+- Train TOTNet: `github.com/AugustRushG/TOTNet`
+- Or WASB: `github.com/nttcom/WASB-SBDT`
+- Set `config.ball_tracking.method = "tracknet"` and provide model path
+
+### Level 4: ViTPose+ for biomechanics
+```python
+config.pose.method = "vitpose"
+config.pose.vitpose_checkpoint = "usyd-community/vitpose-plus-base"
+# → Higher accuracy wrist/elbow tracking → better shot detection + biomechanics
+```
+
+## Hardware Requirements
+
+| Mode | GPU | Speed | Quality |
+|------|-----|-------|---------|
+| CPU (laptop) | None | ~2-5 fps | Good (no shot classification) |
+| T4 (Colab) | 16GB | ~15-25 fps | Great |
+| A10G/A100 | 24-80GB | ~30-60 fps | Full pipeline with all features |
+
+**Recommended**: NVIDIA GPU with ≥16GB VRAM for real-time processing.
+
+## Project Structure
+
+```
+racquet_sports_analyzer/
+├── __init__.py              # Package exports
+├── config.py                # All configuration (sport-specific params, model settings)
+├── court_detector.py        # Court line detection + homography
+├── player_detector.py       # YOLO11 + ByteTrack + pose keypoints
+├── ball_tracker.py          # Classical CV + Kalman + TrackNet placeholder
+├── rally_detector.py        # Rally segmentation from hit events
+├── shot_classifier.py       # VideoMAE shot type classification + trainer
+├── analytics.py             # Movement, shots, rally stats, biomechanics, playstyle
+└── pipeline.py              # Main orchestrator (ties everything together)
+
+run_analysis.py              # CLI entry point
+requirements.txt             # Dependencies
+```
+
+## Key Design Decisions
+
+1. **Modular pipeline over end-to-end**: Each component can be upgraded independently. Start with classical CV ball tracking, upgrade to TOTNet later. Start with YOLO-pose, upgrade to ViTPose+ later.
+
+2. **Classical CV ball tracker as default**: Works on all sports without training. The TrackNet-style deep model is a placeholder — train it on your data for 10x better ball detection.
+
+3. **Dual-signal hit detection**: Fuses ball direction reversal (from ball tracker) with wrist velocity spikes (from pose keypoints). Either signal alone has false positives; combined they're robust.
+
+4. **Hit-frame-centered clips for shot classification**: The BST paper proved this is significantly better than fixed-width temporal windows. We extract 3 frames before + 12 frames after each hit for classification.
+
+5. **Playstyle classification from multi-signal scoring**: Movement speed + shot distribution + rally patterns → weighted score across aggressive/defensive/all-round/counter-puncher archetypes.
+
+## Datasets for Training
+
+| Dataset | Sport | Size | Where |
+|---------|-------|------|-------|
+| ShuttleSet | Badminton | 44 matches, 36K strokes | [shuttleset.badminton.tw](https://shuttleset.badminton.tw/) |
+| TrackNetV2 | Badminton | 26 matches (ball annotations) | [NCTU repo](https://nol.cs.nctu.edu.tw/ndo/TrackNet/) |
+| BFMD | Badminton | 19 matches, 16K hits | [arxiv:2603.25533](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25533) |
+| BadmintonDB | Badminton | 7.6K strokes, 8 matches | GitHub |
+| TenniSet | Tennis | 3.5K strokes, 5 matches | BST paper authors |
+| WASB | Multi-sport | 5 datasets | [github.com/nttcom/WASB-SBDT](https://github.com/nttcom/WASB-SBDT) |
+
+**⚠️ Pickleball & Padel**: No public academic datasets exist. You'll need to collect and label your own data. This is a competitive moat opportunity.
+
+## License
+
+MIT
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this in your work:
+```
+@software{racquet_sports_analyzer,
+  title={Racquet Sports Video Analyzer},
+  year={2026},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/Bot-Derpy/racquet-sports-analyzer}
+}
+```