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Stemmer Imaging helps sixth-form students develop football trajectory tracking system

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Stemmer Imaging and a team of four students from Farnborough Sixth Form College have completed a six-month vision project to develop a system for tracking a football’s trajectory during a penalty kick and to investigate ways of implementing the technique into a smartphone and tablet app.

The project forms part of the Engineering Education Scheme in England and Scotland, an Engineering Development Trust (EDT) programme that links teams of four year 12 or S5/S6 students and their teachers with local companies to work on real scientific, engineering and technological problems.

According to Dr Jon Vickers, technical manager at Stemmer Imaging UK who co-ordinated the technical aspects of the project, the students had to consider the theoretical requirements of capturing 3D data describing the trajectory of the ball and then put that into practice to evaluate the cameras, lenses, software and lighting needed.

They also had to take into account the effects on the ball, such as spin. They then looked at how the techniques could be translated into a game and came up with four possible ideas, before deciding on an app that would allow players to score points by trying to hit different targets in the goal.

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  • Mark Williamson, director of corporate market development at Stemmer Imaging, believes that the UK engineering industry in general and the vision industry in particular will be best served in the future by engineers whose skills include practical experience and understanding of the needs of business as well as their theoretical knowledge.
  • Stemmer Imaging made a small practical contribution to this process through this project, following on from its previous support of EDT with a cash donation in 2011.
  • Williamson said: ‘Although there was a good deal of technical content to this project, there was also a strong business element, with students investigating what was already on the market and learning about the costs of developing a product and the impact they have on profitability.’
  • EDT operates a range of work-related learning schemes to provide opportunities for 11-21 year olds to enhance their technical, personal and employability skills and careers awareness through industry-led projects, industrial placements and specialised courses.
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STEMMER IMAGING is Europe’s largest imaging technology provider with headquarters in Germany and subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland.

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