Ground-Breaking Live Basketball Action Stats Solution

Let fans be part of the game experience in real time

Project flashbacks:

A cursory look at the road behind the team

Who’s the client?

A US-based sports technology company

What’s the solution about?

A mobile real-time tracking and analytics system for basketball teams

What tech innovations were used?

Potent combination of cutting-edge computer vision and statistical analysis technologies

Engaging basketball amateurs during live matches

Imagine that you can transcend the boundaries of a single basketball game by making the fan experience smarter with a data-driven approach. What if they could scan the basketball player with a smartphone and discover more about their favorites and rivals?

Building such an engaging mobile application with real-time tracking and analytics capabilities was the key goal when the client turned to Oxagile.

Innovative object detection approach to involve fans in the game action

After doing deep research, Oxagile’s team generated an ML-based workflow that made the ambitious idea on a napkin work. Here’s what it’s based on:

Recognizing only moving players on the court
Sorting through smartphone positions in the backend to predict possible detection scenarios
Sending player coordinates to the backend system
Rendering the detected player ID and performance stats

Equipped with a mobile camera, fans feel like team trainers

Users are now able to point their mobile camera at the court and tap any player to view a wealth of related information.

Player recognition

Real-time mobile video processing
Real-time data collection from ball- and player-tracking sensors

Player performance tracking

Instant access to the captured players’ performance stats
Calculating precise coordinates of players from any position around the court

For recognizing players during a game

Of data about players’ coordinates generated

Player detection capacity in a mobile app

Bringing extra value to scouts and trainers

Besides increasing the fans’ involvement in the action, the app is poised to be a useful assistant for basketball scouts and trainers who want to get instant access to a certain player’s performance stats during the game.

Industry

Media & Telcos, Sports and Fitness

Delivery Model

SLA-driven task backlog delivery (TM-based)

Domain

Business Intelligence, Online Video, Artificial Intelligence, IoT

Effort and Duration

2 months, 4 man-months

Technologies

Java, Mobile, OpenCV, Unity, Spring, Jersey (JAX-RS), Apache Commons, Apache Spark, Maven, Tomcat

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