Artificial Intelligence Empowerment Movement Helps Youth Sports Development

This article is transferred from [Future Network];

On the playground of Huijing Experimental School, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, students use recess time to run on the playground. Students who actively exercise in the sun sweat and run indulgently, becoming a beautiful and youthful landscape.

It is understood that these students are participating in the sports festival activities of the school, and "Sunshine Run" is one of the projects. It is required to run around the playground by taking classes as a unit, through big recess, after school, etc., and the total mileage of the whole class running reaches 4,000 kilometers (equivalent to the mileage from Guangzhou to Beijing), even if the task is completed.

In recent years, China has attached great importance to sports work, and proposed to vigorously promote the construction of a sports power and the development of youth sports, which is the top priority in the construction of a sports power. It is necessary to strengthen school physical education, promote the coordinated development of youth’s cultural learning and physical exercise, and help students enjoy themselves, strengthen their physique, improve their personality and exercise their will in physical exercise. In response to the national policy, the Guangdong provincial government issued the outline of building a strong sports province, which also emphasized that it was necessary to improve the physical health level of teenagers, open up physical education class, actively carry out extracurricular sports activities, and ensure one hour of campus sports activities every day. In 2022, the "New Curriculum Standard" document issued by the Ministry of Education put forward new requirements for health education. Physical education surpassed English as the third major subject in primary school. The physical health level of teenagers has been included in the assessment system of the government, educational administrative departments and schools. New assessment methods are being established, and the construction of new technology and resource support system is imminent.

As one of the smart campus experimental schools recognized by Guangzhou, Jing Experimental School not only plans to set up an artificial intelligence classroom, but also actively participates in school-enterprise cooperation. With the technical support of Netease, it introduces smart sports intelligent equipment and applies it to sports. This move not only reflects the deep integration of science and technology and sports, but also is a positive action taken by Netease to help students improve their physical health and empower the construction of smart campus.

In this "Sunshine Run" activity, Netease’s well-known intelligent sports system plays an important role. Students are identified by cameras standing at both ends of the playground, and the number of kilometers each student runs is accurately recorded. The mileage data and ranking of that day will also be presented on the big screen next to the playground. It is reported that the system adopts the "cloud-edge-end" network architecture, and collects students’ sports data in real time and in multiple dimensions through intelligent terminals such as cameras and smart outdoor screens. The AI visual computing analysis engine deployed in the edge computing server is used to gather and analyze students’ running learning situation. Combining the scientific evaluation system of physical education teaching, the personal portrait of students’ sports learning is established, and the classroom teaching, after-class practice system and the cloud sports prescription system are combined to realize the organic combination of teaching and training in and out of class, thus forming a positive cycle of "evaluation-precise guidance-personalized training-re-evaluation".

Zhang, a third-grade student of the school, said: "Now with this intelligent running system, there is a kind of competition, and everyone is unwilling to lag behind." "The running speed of the students is not displayed on the screen, but the mileage of the day, and there is the mileage ranking of the day. As long as you run more and keep running, your name will appear on the list on the screen, which also encourages the students to exercise together." Another classmate said.

Besides sunshine running, Youdao Smart Sports also supports intelligent collection of other sports scenes such as pull-ups, standing long jump, sit-ups, solid ball, skipping rope, etc. In the future, Netease Youdao will continue to improve its technology and products, empower sports with artificial intelligence, help young people strengthen their physique and grow healthily, and help build a strong sports country.