Technology Meets Tennis, or the (Machine Vision) Eyes Have It
Close only counts, we've been told, with horseshoes and hand-grenades. But recent news from the sports-meets-technology department causes us to consider adding "tennis" to the list -- and therein the controversey begins.
It turns out that "close" really does count in tennis. Just ask Wimbledon tennis champion Roger Federer, who during his final 2007 match against Rafael Nadal, claimed that Nadal hit a ball that appeared to land out of bounds, but was declared in [...]
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0100
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