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Computer Vision in Sports: How AI Is Revolutionizing Performance Analysis

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Data Revolution in Sports

Sports have always been a domain where experience and intuition mattered most. Coaches evaluated techniques by feel, analyzed competitions from memory, and gave feedback based on years of practice. That is changing fundamentally. Computer Vision — the ability of computers to understand and interpret image data — is opening entirely new possibilities for performance analysis.

What once required expensive laboratory systems with dozens of specialized cameras is now achievable with a smartphone and the right algorithms. The democratization of this technology is transforming not only elite sports but increasingly reaching recreational athletics and everyday training as well.

3D Point Clouds with Potree: Billions of Points in the Browser

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What Are Point Clouds?

A point cloud is a collection of millions or billions of individual 3D points that together describe the surface of an object or environment. Each point has at least three coordinates (X, Y, Z) and can carry additional attributes: color (RGB), intensity, classification, or timestamps.

Point clouds are generated through various capture methods:

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging): Laser scanners measure distances and produce high-precision 3D data. Terrestrial scanners capture buildings, while airborne LiDAR maps entire landscapes.
Photogrammetry: Structure-from-Motion algorithms compute 3D points from overlapping photographs. More affordable than LiDAR but less precise.
Structured light: Projected patterns are captured by cameras and converted into 3D data. Common for interior scans.

The problem: these datasets grow enormous quickly. A single scan of a building can contain 500 million points. A city survey easily reaches several billion. How do you bring that much data into a web browser?

Biomechanical Motion Analysis: From Camera to Data Model

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Traditional vs. Modern Motion Capture

The analysis of human movement has a long history. As early as the late 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge used serial photography to decompose a horse’s gallop. Modern biomechanics built on that foundation — with optical motion capture systems that track reflective markers placed at defined body points.

Systems like Vicon or OptiTrack deliver sub-millimeter-accurate 3D data at sampling rates of 200 Hz and above. They are the gold standard in research. But they come with significant limitations:

Why Static Websites Are the Better Choice

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The WordPress Problem

WordPress powers over 40% of all websites worldwide. It is an impressive ecosystem with thousands of plugins and themes. But for many use cases, it is the wrong choice — especially for corporate websites, portfolios, and blogs that do not require dynamic user interactions.

The problems are structural in nature:

Security

WordPress is the most attacked CMS in the world. Every WordPress installation is a running PHP application with a database connection. Every plugin extends the attack surface. Outdated plugins are the most common entry vector for hackers.