cs.LGOct 6, 2026

TTNet: Multi-Task Deep Learning for Table Tennis Player Analysis with Smart Racket

Authors: Ko-Hsun Chen, Xiang-Wei Ke, Hsien-Cheng Huang, Shang-Kuan Chen

Organizations: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Abstract

The AI CUP 2025 Precise Analysis of Table Tennis Smart Racket Data Competition introduced smart table tennis rackets that collect extensive player swing data, enabling research on table tennis big data. These data support in-depth analysis of players' return techniques and swing-force consistency, improving the accuracy of player skill assessment. This study focuses on six-axis sensor data collected by smart table tennis rackets and proposes TTNet, a novel deep learning model with multitask learning capabilities, to advance table tennis data analysis and related applications. TTNet combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs), residual networks (ResNet), and self-attention mechanisms to simultaneously predict four player attributes: gender, playing hand, years of experience, and skill level. We adopt a two-stage training strategy that incorporates data augmentation and task-specific loss functions to improve generalization on imbalanced data. Our approach achieved second place on the official competition leaderboard.

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