Dr. Chris Hudson BSc. MSc. PhD.
Senior Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Fellow
Summary
Dr Chris Hudson is a senior research fellow within the Sports Engineering Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre, specialising in the development of software for Olympic and Paralympic sports. Chris works within the EIS Innovation Partnership project and has developed a wide range of systems to help monitor elite athlete’s training and tournament performances. Chris is experienced in software programming and has built applications that interface with a variety of hardware devices including machine vision cameras, timing units, force platforms and IP cameras. Chris’s main research interests is the development of systems that collect, store, report and analyse sport data.
About
Dr Chris Hudson is a senior research fellow at the Sports Engineering Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre. Prior to joining Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Chris worked as a software developer for twelve years and attained a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from York and Leeds universities. During his PhD, Chris developed an automated system that measured swimmer speed from the video footage captured by a single low-cost camcorder. The system used image processing techniques to automatically track each swimmer’s progress and a nonlinear planar calibration technique to reconstruct swimmer coordinates from highly distorted images.
Chris works within the EIS Innovation Partnership project and has developed a wide range of systems to help monitor elite athlete’s training and tournament performances. Chris is experienced in software programming and has built applications that interface with a variety of hardware devices including machine vision cameras, timing units, force platforms and IP cameras. As part of this work, Chris was part of the British Swimming team at two World Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games.
Areas of interest:
- Sports engineering
- Software development
- Elite sport
- Performance analysis
Teaching
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Current research projects:
- EIS Innovation Partnership
Collaborators and sponsors:
- English Institute of Sport Innovation and Technology Partnership
Publications
Journal articles
Driscoll, H., Hudson, C., Dunn, M., & Kelley, J. (2018). . Proceedings, 2 (6), 286-292.
Hudson, C. (2014). . Procedia Engineering, 72, 192-195.
Conference papers
Higham, D., Kelley, J., Hudson, C., & Goodwill, S. (2016). . Procedia Engineering, 147, 637-642.
Book chapters
Payton, C.J., & Hudson, C.R. (2017). Motion analysis using video. In Biomechanical Evaluation of Movement in Sport and Exercise. (pp. 44-68). Routledge:
Theses / Dissertations
Higham, D.W. (2018). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Goodwill, S., Kelley, J., & Hudson, C.
Postgraduate supervision
Current supervised PhD students:
- Higham, D., Tracking Hockey Players using a Single Wide-Angle Camera
Media
Dr Chris Hudson is a senior research fellow within the Sports Engineering Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre, specialising in the development of software for Olympic and Paralympic sports. Chris works within the EIS Innovation Partnership project, and has developed a wide range of systems to help monitor elite athlete’s training and tournament performances. Chris is experienced in software programming experience, and has built applications that interface with a variety of hardware devices including machine vision cameras, timing units, force platforms and IP cameras. Chris's main research area is in the application of novel photogrammetry techniques.