Sports
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
Sports
The world of professional sports offers many opportunities to use positioning and tracking technologies. The objective in this case is to provide viewers and broadcasters with completely new types of information, which will provide novel viewing experiences and increase viewership. Delivering this added value requires the ability to exactly locate balls, players, skiers or formula 1 cars. This is where tracking technologies come into play, which can provide that information.
The technology developed by Fraunhofer makes it possible to exactly determine the positions not only of players, but even of their arms and legs. Intelligent software components called event observers then translate the position data into sports information, offering viewers new kinds of insights, pinpointing, for example, which player was the most effective in a given game, who played the longest pass or how closely a downhill skier followed the fastest line. One could go even further and offer viewers real-time 3D animations. Obviously, such a system would also benefit coaches, allowing them to analyze games from a tactical or sports science point of view and providing answers to questions such as “How did our flat-back-four defense acquit itself?” or “Which wing do we score more often from?”
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