The judging program is based on biomechanical standards to evaluate the performance of the front handspring skill on the vaulting platform in men's artistic gymnastics

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the time differences in the release of the final score between the designed program and the judges' evaluation of the men's front
jump on the vaulting platform. It also aimed to identify the contribution percentage and effect size of biomechanical variables in the final performance score
shown by the program in all performance phases of the men's front jump on the vaulting platform. The hypothesis was that there are statistically significant
differences between the time of the release of the final score by the designed program and the time of its release by the judges in evaluating the performance of
the men's front jump on the vaulting platform. As for the research methodology, the descriptive method was used, and the researcher identified the community,
which is the gymnastics judges (10) federation judges to evaluate the performance of the players in executing the front handspring on the vaulting platform for
men's artistic gymnastics. As for the field research procedures, the artificial intelligence program was designed to judge the front handspring on the vaulting
platform in gymnastics, and the artificial intelligence program with the expert systems feature, after studying the movement completely from the moment of hitting
the glove until the landing stage, where the work began by summarizing all possible errors and determining the deductions according to the international
gymnastics law and translating them into codes in the Python programming language, and teaching the program with the four stages of the movement, the expected
heights, and the errors that the players may make by uploading more than one hundred performances and reviewing most of the deductions, as well as relying on
the opinions of international judges specializing in gymnastics. The researcher's expertise in this field is evident in the judge's mapping of the movement from the
moment the glove is struck, through the initial flight, landing on the platform, the second flight, and the final touch. Each of these phases has its own specific
characteristics, so the program was programmed with these phases to enable it to track the athlete's movement using computer vision until the end of the
performance. The conclusion is that the designed program is capable of awarding a final score in record time, seven times faster than the judges' time, after the
athlete performs the forward handspring on the men's vaulting platform.