Queens Park Rangers, the London soccer club, has deployed SceneTracker video stitching software as a coaching tool.
The aim, the club says, is toward improving player performance.
John Dukes of Video Coach said: “For a coach to effectively impart knowledge, he needs to understand exactly how his team works. Statistics show a coach can only see and understand about 30pc of the game while it’s going on.” The product used is the SceneTracker from US firm DVTel. The product offers, Dukes added, views of the field to give coaches the ability to see more of the game, so they can give proper, targeted feedback to improve player performance: “Every coach is looking for a way to make his team better, this powerful tool has tremendous potential to help coaches reach this goal.”
SceneTracker was originally developed to improve situational awareness where monitoring of fragmented views on multiple screens produced a lack of threat correlation, with security and non-security applications in airports, casinos, sports stadiums and government buildings.
David Petrook, Managing Director for DVTel UK/EMEA, said: "With SceneTracker, the images captured might initially be disjointed, but the perspective continues from stitched image to stitched image, so you can more easily track what’s going on in the scene. This is a brand new way to look at the world, and for the Queens Park Rangers coaching staff it’s like a watching a match from the best seat in the stadium, compared to seeing it in a limited and highly-fragmented way as they did previously.”
