Sport Hackdays is an annual event organized by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) in Switzerland.
Applied Data Science students meet with tech companies, clubs, organizations, and athletes to create data-driven innovations and develop prototypes and business models for use in sports.
As part of the NTN Innovation Booster process, Dartfish and Swiss unihockey challenged the students to figure out how the statistics delivered by Dartfish’s Computer Vision Solution could help fans better understand the game and increase their engagement.
Dartfish Computer Vision
Dartfish has developed a video-based system to track athletes and players shifts, as well as balls and pucks trajectories in real-time.
The system automatically tags a game or a competition with specific events (passes, penalties, drops, touches, shots on goal and more) generating live statistics.
Dartfish has installed the Computer Vision System in the AXA Arena in Winterthur. The multiple cameras can record the movements of floorball players and balls in near real-time from games played at a very high level.
The Sports Hackdays experiment confirmed that Dartfish Computer Vision was able to quickly deliver valuable data usable for fan engagement and coaching.
Learn more about Dartfish’s Sport Hackdays challenge
Powered by Innosuisse and operated by a consortium of Thinksport, EPFL and UNIL universities, the NTN Booster gathers business, academic and sport organizations to collaborate and develop new ideas in an open innovation culture.
Dartfish thanks Innosuisse, Thinksport, the Axa Arena, and the HC Rychenberg for their participation in this hackathon.
