TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN

LEHRSTUHL FUR INFORMATIONSTECHNISCHE REGELUNGORDINARIA: UNIV.-PROF. DR.-ING. SANDRA HIRCHE

October 16, 2018

B A C H E L O R T H E S I S / M A S T E R ’ S T H E S I S

Frequent head impacts from heading in soccer: Are there behavioral consequences andchanges in brain structure?

Problem description:

Heading a ball in a soccer game has been associated withchanges in a long-term brain damage [2]. Quantification ofimpacts caused by the heading is needed to understand theextent to which it influences the change in the brain struc-ture. This thesis develops machine learning algorithm fordetecting heading motion from an inertia sensor worn be-hind the ear. You will collect and use the field data for whichthe presence or absence of headers is known from video anal-ysis (training data), and develop a machine learning modelthat recognizes headers from the inertia data [e.g., 1]. Thisthesis will be supervised in collaboration between Chair ofInformation-oriented control and Char of human movementscience at Department of Sport and Health Sciences.

Tasks:

• Literature research on machine learning techniques for human motion classification• Collection of the heading motion using an inertia sensor• Analyses and modelling of the inertia data in Matlab

Bibliography:

[1] Andrea Ancillao, Salvatore Tedesco, John Barton, and Brendan O’Flynn. Indirect Measurementof Ground Reaction Forces and Moments by Means of Wearable Inertial Sensors: A SystematicReview. Sensors, 18(8):2564, aug 2018.

[2] Gorazd Bunc, Janez Ravnik, and Tomaz Velnar. May Heading in Soccer Result in Traumatic BrainInjury? A Review of Literature. Med. Arch., 71(5):356, 2017.

Supervisor: Dr. Satoshi Endo & Nadine Nurasyid, M. Sc.(Chair of Human movement science)Start: TBCIntermediate Report: TBCDelivery: TBC

(S. Hirche)Univ.-Professor