Word: simulcam
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...exactly does Dartfish operate? The software program imports digital video into a computer. Then an athlete or a coach conducts both qualitative and quantitative analyses. For example, Dartfish's SimulCam technology, which Kirk and her coach used at the pool, allows separate video clips to be superimposed on one another so swimmers and gymnasts can compare their current strokes and dismounts with their best and worst performances. SimulCam also adjusts images so athletes appear to be the same size, even if, for example, the camera was zoomed in on the first shot-putter but zoomed out on the second. Another...
Dartfish rose to Olympic glory quicker than Marion Jones. In 1997 Serge Ayer, a graduate student at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute, and his professor Martin Vetterli developed the SimulCam blueprint. Ayer and his brother Jean-Marie, then a Swisscom executive and now CEO of Dartfish Europe, spent Sunday dinners discussing potential applications for SimulCam. They sensed an opportunity on television. Says Serge: "What we saw happening on TV during sport competitions, such as split screen and instant replay, wasn't good enough." Their idea was to layer the positions of two athletes at the same point...
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