May-June 2017
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ChyronHego tracks Europe ’ s top football leagues
ChyronHego ’ s TRACAB imagebased tracking system has been chosen to provide real-time balland player-tracking data , as well as insights into match play for English and German football .
A user since 2013 , the Barclays Premier League ’ s ( BPL ) — England ’ s top-tier football league — will continue to deploy TRACAB over the 2016-17 , 2017-18 and 2018- 19 seasons , covering 380 matches per season .
The new contract the BPL has signed with ChyronHego includes a hardware upgrade , which employs advanced image-processing technology to determine the position of all moving objects in the field of play at 25 times per second — including players , referees , assistant referees and the ball .
The live data feed containing all the X , Y , and Z positional coordinates for each identified object can be streamed in an open format to a multitude of visualisation platforms , such as broadcast graphics data systems and online or mobile platforms . The data feed can also be used to prepare sets of performance statistics for sports analysts .
The TRACAB has also been installed in more than 300 stadiums worldwide , according to Chyron- Hego , and is capturing live tracking data over 4,500 matches every year .
This includes in Germany , where the Deutsche Fußball Liga ( DFL ) sports organisation has signed a new four-year contract to use TRACAB for Bundesliga and
Designed to improve the quality of lossy , compressed audio , the Orban NeuStar Air2 codec preconditioner is now available .
Specifically , NeuStar Air2 addresses the enhancement of the sonic performance of low bitrate Internet streams , HD radio multicasts , DAB / DAB + and DRM channels .
David Day , Orban ’ s president , explained : “ Many Internet and terrestrial radio stations depend on lossy , compressed source
ChyronHego ’ s image-based
TRACAB tracking system is being deployed for major European football league , including those in England and
Germany .
Orban releases NeuStar Air2 codec pre-conditioner
Orban ’ s new NeuStar Air2 codec pre-conditioner .
Bundeliga 2 football matches .
As part of the new agreement , ChryonHego will work closely with Sportec Solutions , the new subsidiary of DFL , to develop a next-generation optical playertracking system based on the core capabilities of TRACAB .
Dr Hendrik Weber , managing director at Sportec Solutions , said : “ We look forward to continuing to leverage TRACAB ’ s real-time data
material for a large portion of their programming .
“ The problem is that , while listeners expect a broad range of programming choices , they won ’ t tolerate low-quality sound performance for very long . Our design goal for the NeuStar product was to increase time-spent-listening and keep listeners from becoming irritated and tuning to another station .”
Orban ’ s proprietary codec
collection capabilities to further empower our teams and create a more engaging experience for our broadcast partners ’ viewers .
“ The richness , quality and latency of the data that will be available to us over the coming years open up an unprecedented level of insight and analysis of the game by teams , the media and fans .”
pre-processing engine has been specially tuned for operation at 24Kbps , 32Kbps , 48Kbps , 64Kbps and 128Kbps rates with multiple codecs , including HE-AAC v2 . It reduces artifacts from lossy codecs and other low bitrate sources .
The ultimate goal , Day added , is to deliver quality content while preserving a station ’ s “ unique sound signature , thus ensuring a win-win for both the broadcaster and listener ”.
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