The StroMotion™ and SimulCam™ applications allows viewers to see an athletic movement unfold before their eyes in time and space by compounding video images into a frame-by-frame sequence. These technologies, developed by Dartfish, have been used for a number of events at both Summer and Winter Olympic Games, including Snowboarding, Freestyle Skiing, Alpine Skiing, Diving, and Gymnastics. StroMotion is based on stroboscoping, a means to analyze rapid movement so that a moving object is perceived as a series of static images along the object’s trajectory. SimulCam is a video processing application combining video sequences with Spatial-Temporal alignment. Given two video sequences, a composite video sequence can be generated which includes visual elements from each of the given sequences, suitably synchronized and represented in a chosen focal plane. For example, given two video sequences with each showing a different contestant individually racing the same down-hill course, the composite sequence can include elements from each of the given sequences to show the contestants as if racing simultaneously. Both StroMotion and SimulCam technologies are part of the Dartfish DartStudio system. |