Fribourg — April 9, 2019 — Today IIHF and Dartfish announced a strategic partnership to deploy a Computing Vision Solution dedicated to ice hockey organizations and teams. The partnership will deliver the player and puck tracking solution for the next IIHF World Championship in Slovakia in May 2019. Dartfish, a Swiss company providing video performance analysis tools to the sport industry since 1999, has opened a subsidiary for Research and Development in Riga (Latvia). Dartfish Latvia has developed and tested the new player tracking solution under the leadership of Marcis Grasis – an ice hockey events and competition expert, who joined Dartfish Latvia as COO. Based on computing vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning’s latest innovations, this new Dartfish solution aims to deliver player and puck tracking information in real-time. The live delivery of this vast amount of information will provide ice hockey fans with comprehensive and precise game information…