John Kelley
Research Fellow
Summary
John Kelley is a research fellow in the Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CSER) specialising in video collection and analysis techniques and performance analysis software tools.
John currently works on the English Institute of Sport (EIS) Innovation Partnership project and with the SportScotland Institute of Sport (SIS) through their Special Projects partnership with CSER. This involves developing software and hardware solutions for elite sport performance analysis. John has worked with a wide range of sports, including Athletics, Canoeing, Curling, Bowls, Sailing, Skeleton Bob, Speed Skating and Weight Lifting.
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About
John completed his PhD at Sheffield Hallam University in 2011. His PhD was sponsored by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the aim was to develop a method to automatically measure ball spin rates in match play tennis. He has developed several sports ball video analysis software tools based on the ideas and skills from his PhD. These are being used by the ITF and by several other CSER clients.
John managed a HEIF funded project to install technology at the Sheffield Hallam University City Athletics Stadium to create a Technology Demonstrator Hub. This allows coaches, athletes and the general public have access to some of the performance analysis technology developed for elite sport.
John won the UK Sport Ideas4Innovation Garage Award in 2011, which provided a £25,000 research grant to work with British Swimming.
Prior to joining the group at Sheffield Hallam University, John graduated from the University of Sheffield with a MMath (First class) in Mathematics.
Areas of Interest
- Software development
- MATLAB
- Elite sport
- Participation sport
- Computer vision
- Video capture
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Teaching
John is the module leader for Numerical Programming in Sports Engineering, a level 7 module on the Sports Engineering MSc course.
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Research
- Centre for Sports Engineering Research
Current research projects
- Boxing practitioner support – a data analysis project with GB boxing
- SuperBowl – A software project with Bowls Scotland
- SpinProf – A match analysis software tool for the ITF
- Spin Rig – A software tool incorporated into the ITF ball testing laboratory
Collaborators and sponsors
- English Institute of Sport
- SportScotland Institute of Sport
- International Tennis Federation
- Parkrun
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Publications
GOFF, John, KELLEY, John, HOBSON, Chad, SEO, Kazuya, ASAI, Takeshi and CHOPPIN, Simon (2017). Creating drag and lift curves from soccer trajectories. European Journal of Physics. (In Press)
HEXT, Andrew, HELLER, Ben, KELLEY, John and GOODWILL, Simon (2017). Relay exchanges in elite short track speed skating. European Journal of Sport Science, 17 (5), 503-510.
MCINERNEY, Ciaran and KELLEY, John (2016). Simone Biles: defying the laws of physics? +Plus magazine.
HIGHAM, D, KELLEY, John, HUDSON, Christopher and GOODWILL, Simon (2016). Finding the optimal background subtraction algorithm for EuroHockey 2015 video. Procedia Engineering, 147, 637-642.
HEXT, Andrew, HELLER, Ben, KELLEY, John and GOODWILL, Simon (2016). Measuring straight time in elite short track speed skating relays. Procedia Engineering, 147, 622-626.
KELLEY, John, HIGHAM, David and WHEAT, Jonathan (2016). Technology for studying interpersonal coordination in social collectives. In: PASSOS, Pedro, DAVIDS, Keith and CHOW, Jia Yi, (eds.) Interpersonal Coordination and Performance in Social Systems. Routledge, 305-322.
REED, Heath, STANTON, Andrew, WHEAT, Jonathan, KELLEY, John, DAVIS, L., RAO, W, SMITH, A, OWEN, D and FRANCESE, Simona (2015). The Reed-Stanton press rig for the generation of reproducible fingermarks : towards a standardised methodology for fingermark research. Science & justice, 56 (1), 9-17.
DRISCOLL, Heather, KELLEY, John, KIRK, Bob, KOERGER, Harald and HAAKE, Steve (2015). Measurement of studded shoe–surface interaction metrics during in situ performance analysis. Sports Engineering, 18 (2), 105-113.
DUNN, Marcus and KELLEY, John (2015). Non-invasive, spatio-temporal gait analysis for sprint running using a single camera. Procedia Engineering, 112, 528-533.
SPURR, James, GOODWILL, Simon, KELLEY, John and HAAKE, Steve (2014). Measuring the inertial properties of a tennis racket. Procedia Engineering, 72, 569-574.
KELLEY, John (2014). A camera calibration method for a hammer throw analysis tool. In: JAMES, David, CHOPPIN, Simon, ALLEN, Tom and FLEMMING, Paul, (eds.) The Engineering of Sport 10. Procedia Engineering, 10 (72). Elsevier, 74-79.
NICOLAIDES, Alexander, ELLIOTT, Nathan, KELLEY, John, PINAFFO, Mauro and ALLEN, Tom (2013). Effect of string bed pattern on ball spin generation from a tennis racket. Sports Engineering, 16 (3), 181-188.
WIART, N., KELLEY, John, JAMES, David and ALLEN, Tom (2011). Effect of temperature on the dynamic properties of soccer balls. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, 225 (4), 189-198.
WIART, N., KELLEY, John, JAMES, David and ALLEN, Tom (2011). Effect of temperature on the dynamic properties of soccer balls. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, 225 (4), 189-198.
CHOPPIN, S B. and KELLEY, John (2010). Generating football Cd profiles without a wind tunnel. Procedia engineering, 2 (2), 2449-2454.
KELLEY, John, CHOPPIN, S. B., GOODWILL, S. R. and HAAKE, Steve (2010). Validation of a live, automatic ball velocity and spin rate finder in tennis. Procedia engineering, 2 (2), 2967-2972.
KELLEY, John, GOODWILL, Simon, CAPEL-DAVIES, J. and HAAKE, Steve (2008). Ball spin generation at the 2007 Wimbledon qualifying tournament. In: ESTIVALET, M. and BRISSON, P., (eds.) The engineering of sport 7. Springer, 571-578.
Post graduate supervision
Current supervised PhD students
- Hext, A., The use of persuasive technologies in elite sport coaching
- Higham, D., Can patterns of play predict key events in tournament field hockey?
- Karditsas, H., Modelling of tennis ball impacts on tennis rackets
- Sotheran, A. Real-time objective feedback in springboard diving training
- Spurr, J., Quantifying tennis racket control
Completed supervised PhD students
- Hudson, C., Automated tracking of swimmers in the clean swimming phase of a race, August 2015
Completed postgraduate examinations
- MPhil Internal - 2
- MPhil External - 0
- PhD Internal - 1
- PhD External - 0
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