A single camera is enough to turn a cricket batting stroke into a 3D skeleton that a coach can measure and change. Researchers Shuvam Swapnil Dash and Arpit Narechania built the tool, called PoseForge, and present it at the IEEE VIS 2026 conference.
Motion capture with several cameras and markers is out of reach for most clubs. A tool that works from ordinary video brings that kind of analysis to academies and grassroots coaching, the setting the authors had in mind.
Change the pose, see the numbers
PoseForge pulls a 3D pose from the video. It then computes measures such as the gap between the feet and the elbow angle, and compares them with values from sports science research.
Coaches can drag a joint into a new position or describe the change in plain language. The system keeps the body realistic and updates the numbers at once, so a coach can test a correction before trying it at the nets.
Tested by 11 experts
Eleven cricket experts, from coaches and analysts to captains and players, helped design the tool and then evaluated it. They found it useful for finding problems in technique and for trying alternatives, the authors report.
Eleven people is a small test. The code is open source on GitHub, so any club can try it.
