Joan Charmant

Joan Charmant is a French software publisher whose work revolves around the intersection of computer vision and athletic performance, best known for the open-source project Kinovea. Originally created to help coaches and athletes dissect movement frame-by-frame, the program has matured into a lightweight yet powerful video annotation suite that imports footage from any standard camera or smartphone, overlays angle rulers, distance scales, stopwatches and trajectory trackers, then exports still sequences or spreadsheets for further statistical work. Typical use cases span sprinters seeking to reduce ground-contact time, tennis coaches measuring serve speed, physiotherapists quantifying knee flexion during rehab, and PE teachers building visual feedback libraries for entire classes. Because the interface stays close to the classic media-player paradigm, users can scrub, loop and compare side-by-side without prior video-editing knowledge, while more advanced modules unlock dual-camera calibration, automatic digitisation of markers, and batch capture from high-speed industrial cameras. The resulting data can be synchronised with external force plates or GPS units, making Kinovea a low-cost alternative to commercial motion-capture systems for amateur clubs, university labs and even professional teams on tight budgets. Joan Charmant’s sole listed application is offered free of charge on get.nero.com, where the package is pulled through trusted Windows sources such as winget, always installs the newest build, and can be queued alongside other titles for unattended batch deployment.