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"Find what you're looking for faster
Powerful search capabilities and high imaging quality allows you to find a person or vehicle of interest quickly
in a crowd."
"Detect banned individuals
AI-powered facial recognition technology accelerates search and response times by quickly identifying banned individuals at your perimeter."
It isn’t just Madison Square Garden.
slate.com
Facial recognition technology, including facial ticketing, is shaping the sports industry. SBJ Tech expert Andrew Cohen explores seven key deployments.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
"Fan Experience
Facial recognition can also provide stadiums with new ways to engage spectators through apps such as
15 Seconds of Fame, which leverages facial recognition software to ensure fans at sporting events can save the moments in which they appear on in-stadium jumbotrons or game broadcasts.
Fans can download the 15SOF mobile app to upload their selfie and will later receive a “You’ve Got Fame” notification alongside a video clip of their on-screen moment if in-stadium cameras show their face on videoboards or TV broadcasts.
Sports teams have partnered with 15SOF as far back as
2016, with the company signing four-year extensions with both
the NBA and MLB in 2021. NFL teams such as the New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs have also partnered with 15SOF, as well as Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the
Australian Open tennis Grand Slam, as well as college teams at the University of Michigan and Michigan State. NBA legend
Kobe Bryant invested in 15 Seconds of Fame in 2017 while
the NBA acquired a minority stake in the company in June 2022.
TVU Networks, which is based in California with operations across the world, is a cloud-based sports broadcast production company that works with the NFL, NCAA teams, the UEFA Champions League, Rugby World Cup, and broadcasters such as ESPN, FOX, NBC, Sky Sports, and Flo Sports. The company has developed a facial recognition software that helped a Chinese media company identify specific runners for its broadcast and social media coverage of a marathon held in China.
“With facial recognition identifying runners as they cover the 26.2-mile course, broadcasters have the opportunity to produce custom race coverage,” TVU Networks CEO Paul Shen wrote on
the company’s website. “Viewers who have connections to specific runners –co-workers, friends or relatives—could track their personal favorites as they progress through the race watching shots from cameras trained on the route shooting runners as they pass and the MediaMind AI engine identifying them in real time. The same facial recognition algorithm can be used to identify celebrities and other high-profile individuals lining the race route, opening up one or more other special-interest channels for distribution via social media and online.”
“Privacy control is much more stringent in the U.S., even more stringent in Europe,” Shen told SBJ Tech. “We've put a lot to guard against the technology to make sure people don't abuse this power. What we tried to create is not for anything other than making the production process much more efficient.”
