At the 2024 Paris Olympics, you can even see the angle of the feet of a splendidly extraordinary gymnast.
In the pole vault, the gap between the player and the bar is automatically measured, and in swimming diving, the time to stay in the air and the speed to obtain is provided to the referees.
Omega, the official timekeeper of the Olympics, announced on the 2nd that it will introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-based "computer vision technology" at the 33rd Summer Olympics, which will open in Paris, France on the 26th of this month.
Computer vision is a technology that uses AI camera systems to track players in real time and reproduce them in three dimensions.
Instead of having to attach an electronic tag (RFID) to players as in the past, players' performance can be analyzed in detail only with optical sensors.
"Computer vision technology has developed into an Olympics where you can feel the beauty of the process beyond just winning and losing," Omega said. "It is applied to gymnastics, pole vault, diving, tennis, and beach volleyball."
In tennis, it is expected to analyze the correlation between the speed of sub-reaction and the victory or defeat of the game, and in beach volleyball, players' jump height and various pitches can be identified.
And the data calculated in this way is planned to be provided as 4K UHD graphics through Omega's next-generation graphic technology 'Bionardo'.
In addition, the Paris Olympics will introduce a photo finish camera that takes up to 40,000 photos per second at the finish line. Previously, the camera took 10,000 photos per second.
"The exclusive color sensor will be used to provide clear images regardless of pixels," Omega said. "The judges will be able to determine the outcome of the race faster and more accurately. It will be applied to track and field and track cycling."
