Sports x AI
Technology Solution for Live Sports (2019)
Sony showcased a new technology solution for live sports production featuring sensors and AI at CES 2020, a global technology event. The project leveraged Sony’s unique proprietary AI-based pose-estimation technology and high-speed vision sensors with object recognition and tracking to perform real-time analyses of how the ball and players moved during a table tennis match. This technology fusion opened up unprecedented visualizations, making it possible to see the ball’s trajectory and the players’ positions and postures like never before. The idea for the project originated from a proposal by in-house designers: "What if we used Sony technologies to make sports broadcasts even more fun to watch?"
