Dartfish (company)

This article is about the Swiss company. For the goby-like fish, see Dartfish.

Dartfish

Company type	Private
Industry	Video processing
Founded	January 1999 (1999-01)
Headquarters	Fribourg , Switzerland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Victor Bergenzoli (Co-founder, CEO) Serge Ayer (Co-founder, CTO) Daniel Morand (CFO) Anton Affentranger (Executive Chairman)
Products	SimulCam, StroMotion

Dartfish is a company based in Fribourg, Switzerland. The company develops online and offline video software to enable users to view, edit and analyse videos for individual and corporate use.[1] The company was founded in 1999 at the Swiss Institute of Technology EPFL and has offices in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Sophia Antipolis, France; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, South Korea.

History

Dartfish was founded in 1999 as InMotion Technologies, Ltd to commercially develop SimulCamTM and other digital imaging applications.[2] SimulCamTM technology was followed by StroMotionTM, in January 2001.[3]

In January 2004, Dartfish entered a distribution agreement with South America in Chile. Five months later, Dartfish launched its third version (3.0) of the Dartfish software. In November 2004, Dartfish created a new subsidiary in France to distribute its software.[4] In June 2005, Dartfish launched version 4.0 of the software.

Technical Details

Dartfish.TV is an integrated solution across multiple platforms (software, online, mobile) that allows users to capture videos, tag events real-time, and upload, organize and share the videos via Dartfish TV channel. Tagging enables users to bookmark specific events or series of events in their videos so that users including coaches, athletes and corporate managers can identify specific stats or important moments in the video and directly navigate or share the moments.
Dartfish Software is used by athletic coaches to break down and analyze the movements as well as categorize videos to create an index of events (e.g. pass goal, player, etc.). The software uses digital video graphics to deliver instant visual feedback. Also, it is reported that it can improve processes and performance, trainings, risk management and HR functions.[5]

Use

Dartfish software supported the athletes who won 400 medals during the Olympic Games in 2012 and helped to prepare the U.S. team in the 2011 Davis Cup.[6] Its network of users includes major league sports teams, Olympic committees from many nations, federations, colleges and universities, high schools, prep schools, branches of military, industry and professionals, as well as athletes and students of all levels in numerous academic fields.

Recognition

In 1999, it was European IST Prize Winner (InMotion).[7] In 2005, it was Emmy winner for The George Wensel Outstanding Innovative Technical Achievement Award.[8] In 2006, it was the winner of the Korean Culture and Sports Ministry competition for identifying innovative, high-value added sports service business with its proposal, Customized Online Prescription of Physiotherapy [9]

References

1. David F. Carr, "Newsweek", April 25, 2011, "[1]", July 7, 2011 Archived August 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. No author, "Bloomberg Businessweek", no date, "[2]", July 7, 2011
3. No author, "Broadcast Engineering", February 24, 2006, "[3]", July 7, 2011 Archived April 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
4. Stephen H. Wildstrom, "Bloomberg Businessweek", June 21, 2005, "[4]", July 7, 2011
5. Sonja Carberry, "Investors.com", May 20, 2011, "[5] Archived 2012-09-10 at archive.today", July 7, 2011
6. Richard Pagliaro, "Tennis Magazine", July 8, 2011, "[6]", July 26, 2011
7. No author, "The European IST Prize", October 2003, "[7]", July 7, 2011
8. No author, "Rowing Canada", no date, "[8] Archived 2011-06-25 at the Wayback Machine", July 7, 2011
9. No author, "Sport Centric", August 8, 2006, "[9]", July 7, 2011