Applications of Computer Vision in Sports

9 companies that are weaving AI into the *fabric of sports technology* 🤖⤵ 🤩 1. WSC Sports’ AI algorithms identify key moments of action and automatically create highlight clips. The company just announced the ability for models to analyze non-game moments, such as crowd shots and press conferences. 🏀 2. Second Spectrum (division of Genius Sports) offers player and ball optical tracking systems which include AI-generated basketball tactics and video feeds to enhance coaching and analysis for NBA G League teams. ✨ 3. Zoomph’s partnership management platform includes vision AI to measure factors that impact recognition and perception of logo and asset valuations, then models discounts to those factors to provide a brand value. 🎽 4. Catapult’ “Athlete Monitoring System” aims to use AI algorithms to optimize performance, reduce risk of injury, and improve recovery by delivering sports and position specific metrics and analytics. 💬 5. Satisfi Labs provides an AI-powered, two-way chat solution to help fans answer questions (e.g., ticketing, food & beverage, parking) and drive revenue by guiding conversations toward purchase pages and in-chat sales options. 🐺 6. WolfCycle powers sales & service teams with an "AI Virtual Assistant," which works to find more qualified opportunities by engaging in carefully crafted, human-like, two-way conversations. 📸 7. Greenfly's "+AI Vision" tags and curates media based by identifying players, teams, sponsors, and scenes, which helps organize short-form content for teams, partners, players, and broadcasters. 🏉 8. PFF’s AI-powered “Live Draft Assistant” allows fantasy players to input different draft strategies, get real-time pick suggestions, see availability predictions, and use other tools to power fantasy football success. 📈 9. Gemini Sports Analytics offers a "no-code AI platform" to help front offices with talent identification, talent development & roster management, on-field tactics, and player performance. The company closed a $3.25M seed funding round in Nov 2023. __ 💡 My suggestion for how to best prepare yourself for a future in AI is woven across many products → *start experimenting* For consumer tools, experiment with free or paid trials. When engaging with AI-products in service or sales functions, dialog with the products and explore their capabilities. *Learning by doing* will give you insight on where AI models have the potential to drive change, and where there is opportunity to do better. In addition ... these applications are just the beginning. OpenAI now offers the capability for any organization to implement their models into applications via API, which unlocks the possibility for more sports tech product to incorporate AI to enhance the user experiences. __ ⭐️ Explore 150+ open roles in Sports Technology on TeamWork Online: https://lnkd.in/g8XnJbtn What other companies have you seen use AI to improve a service or experience? ⬇️ 💬

🏌♂️ Have you ever noticed at the precision and rhythmic control in Tiger Woods’ golf swing? Or observed Roberto Carlos meticulously adjust the ball before unleashing a left-footed cannon in soccer? Success in sports is not just about knowing the rules or learning techniques. It's about the discipline, dedication, and countless repetitions to refine and perfect movements. ✈ My coach at the Air Force Academy often said, “Only repetition, to the point of exhaustion, leads to perfection.” However, perfecting a move requires first identifying any mistakes. This is where high-performance coaches step in, employing video analysis to meticulously fine-tune an athlete’s performance. In sports, such technology is pivotal in monitoring and enhancing posture during physical activities, which aids in both injury prevention and performance optimization. But the application of this technology doesn't stop there. As per Google Developers’ website, one such intriguing application is teaching computers to recognize and understand human poses just as a human would. Enter Human Pose Estimation (HPE). Harnessing the power of machine learning and computer vision, we can now accurately estimate the positions of various body joints, from shoulders and elbows to hips and ankles. In my latest tutorial, I will introduce you into the MediaPipe library and explore Python code designed to estimate human poses from images and videos. 🔗 Check out the tutorial here: https://lnkd.in/dk3AvaQX #computervision #machinelearning #python #mediapipe

It’s W10 / Q4 / 2023 and this week in our MGMT Boston startup series we’ve got SportsVisio, Inc., a seed stage startup building AI video software to help you see your (hoop) game like never before. With just a smartphone trained on a court, this app can help players track all their stats from points to rebounds to assists to steals and more. Do you believe that everything happens for a reason? Founded in 2021 by veteran New England entrepreneur Jason Syversen , SportsVisio is a follow up act. Jason founded Siege Technologies, a cybersecurity firm, bootstrapping the company and selling the business 9 years later to a private equity firm for an eight figure exit. Jason has what the people call “relevant startup experience”. During his whirlwind of a career, life changed a lot. Jason & his wife were raising 6 kids at home and donated the majority of their post exit assets to a foundation they created. Then, he ran for NH State Senate in 2020. He lost to the incumbent by just 1,179 votes or 0.3% of the vote. Jason was at a crossroads. He’d already accomplished so much in his career. Maybe it was time to become a full time investor & philanthropist through his foundation. Or, he could start another company to grow the impact he wanted to have on the world. Life (and sports) are games of inches and basketball players everywhere are the beneficiaries of that extremely slim margin of defeat. Jason grew up playing basketball and coached his kids throughout their childhoods (his oldest is now 22) and saw an opportunity. There isn’t much technology on the court. And basketball turns out to be a venture scale market. SportsVisio is building a technology and service to help disadvantaged schools & players get better insights out of their game. Today, there are a couple dozen high schools & colleges (Oxford University in fact) using the product with players as far away as Idaho & Spain. The team is in discussions with a large gym franchise and close to signing on an NBA player to help out as an advisor. This year the company raised an additional $3M seed round with Sapphire Ventures, hoping to get the onboarding process fully automated by the end of Q1 2024. Next, they’ll be gearing up for their Series A by securing their IP and growing the research team. They hope to launch a second sport in 2024 and scale to 1000s of users and dozens of customers. Operators to Know: -Scott Byers, Principal Software Architect -Charlotte Corbitt, Principal Business Analyst -Mark Scott Lichty, Director of Growth -Miguel Gutierrez, Head of Vendor Operations -Michael Mathieu, Senior Mobile Engineer -Dan Oblinger, CTO -Jack Ryan Potvin, Product Management Lead -James Sullivan III, Senior Business Analyst If you're interested in learning more, including the key roles SportsVisio is hiring for, the full post is linked in the comments! And sign up for the newsletter to see who we bring you next week, will you?? #startup #bostontech #sports