The New York Times and wrnch Developed an AI Model to Improve Sports Storytelling – NVIDIA Developer News Center

To improve how sporting events are covered in the news, a new AI 3D pose estimation model was recently developed by a group of researchers from The New York Times R&D group, and wrnch, an AI-computer vision company and member of the NVIDIA Inception program. The 3D pose estimation model can help extract data the human eye can easily miss and help journalists tell a story with more concrete data. "Traditional motion capture techniques require an athlete to wear physical markers. But this isn't possible during live sporting events. Instead, we built a solution that uses our photographers' cameras, machine learning and computer vision to capture this data as an event unfolds," the researchers stated in their article, Estimating 3D Poses of Athletes at Live Sporting Events.