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Sportvision is supplying NBC with special effects generated using the massively parallel computing power of NVIDIA’s Quadro GPU.
One special effect, for example, is “SimulCam”, a patented video technology from the Swiss company Dartfish. It enables two video sequences to be superimposed. This makes it possible, for example, to analyse style, line or speed in a direct comparison of athletes in alpine skiing.
SimulCam technology requires “background detection”, meaning a process for identifying pixels in the background and calculating how these pixels change as the image progresses. Sportvision uses the computing power of NVIDIA GPUs for these complex calculations.