Fadu Learns Badminton

AJ & Fadu Drills at SSS 🏸

Working on options from the deep backhand corner — exploring different ways to recover the shuttle and stay in the rally.

Of course, we couldn't resist taking a few attacking shots earlier than the drill intended. 😅

🎁 BONUS: Quick feedback on the Yonex ArcSaber 11 after the session.

Fadu with AJ knocking and Drills at SSSNF Badminton Court.

Auto Extracted from FB LIVE Video - potato.

AJ and Fadu at SSS playing some kind kids (court was theirs)

Focused on control.

Autocut by the FADU's STCF Rally Extractor

SSS North Fairview Homes Badminton Court

Another cushion revolution?

"Sorry, Thank you!"
Fadu lost the match but had this fun rally souvenier!

Video courtesy of Kyle Ymson

Super Quality Coffee at Dubai Prince Cafe

Funny Fadu Highlight at DASC Play-All Today with
Lance Siapno Jerome Abril ... and the many Fans of Lance Siapno

Fadu's Badminton Tech Update: Custom Bounding box and other updates - one step closer to detecting rallies in videos.

🟩 Custom Poly-Masking: Instead of a basic cropping box, you can now drag four interactive corner nodes to trace the exact perspective lines of the court. Everything outside the green boundary is zeroed out before processing.

📳 Shuttle In-Flight Verification: To distinguish between an active rally and players just scrambling to pick up the shuttle, the engine now checks for a rhythmic hitting cadence in the audio track alongside high-velocity visual pixel streaks

The magenta "Shuttle In Flight" indicator only lights up when both layers agree. Testing out the real-time pause-and-analyze calibration workspace here!

Intent: I wanted to auto-clip my badminton session highlights, but commercial AI sports tracking software is locked behind expensive subscription paywalls. So I built my own open-source pipeline using Python. Instead of just tracking raw motion (which gets tricked by spectators or people walking past the camera), this script runs two parallel validation layers:

1. Spatial Masking: Focuses exclusively on the active court geometry, mathematically blinding the script to any background foot traffic.

2. Acoustic Transient Filtering: Uses a digital high-pass filter to isolate the sharp 3kHz - 5kHz audio impulse frequencies unique to a clean stringbed-to-shuttle connection.

Here’s a quick look at the live parameter tuning sandbox. When visual changes align with the acoustic impulse spikes, a valid rally window is logged and immediately queued for seamless FFmpeg clipping. No cloud costs, no ongoing subscriptions—just local ex*****on.