I'm Carlos Dietrich

Researcher / Prototyper

Weird solutions to complex computer vision problems since 2006

A Brazilian PhD on Computer Graphics and data analyst. Among others, I had the chance to work with Major League Baseball in the development of their tracking system (Statcast), with the Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (ViDA) at the New York University, and with Disney in the development of a MMA tracking system.

Computer Graphics
21 years
Sport data analysis
11 years (Baseball, MMA, soccer)
C++ development
13 years
GPU experiments (back to 2002)
Crowd control, procedural data, medical image visualization, still when it was fun to try general-purpose computations on GPUs
Soccer tracking
A simple way to track and deliver meaningful data in real time
Statcast
StatCast (MLB)
Evaluating data providers, merging datasets, computing stats and visualizing them in the biggest sports tracking system created to this day
MMA
From data capturing to visualization, including fine-grained action detection on MMA data
Soccer stats
Capturing and analysing soccer data, with focus on pass networks and on how to create content from them
2D/3D pose analysis
4 years of experience on the analysis of 3d poses, focusing on how to extract content from movements
What I Do
Computer Graphics

21 years of experience on research and development on computer graphics, from geometry processing to visualization.

Sport Data Analysis

13 years of experience on sport data analysis, including baseball, ice hockey, soccer, and MMA. From the evaluation of data providers to the actual development of tracking systems.

Programming

13 years of experience on C++, 3 apps and 3 tracking systems created from end-to-end.

Education
Prototyper @ PoseAnalytics
Jun 2023 - Present
Prototyper @ StatsFera
Oct 2022 - Present
Systems Development Analyst @ Disney Streaming Services
Jan 2020 - Apr 2023
Prototyper @ Mustard
Nov 2019 - Present
Research Scientist @ NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Independent Contractor @ MLB Advanced Media
Jul 2012 - Sep 2017
Co-founder and Senior Software Developer @ Modelo Inc.
Jun 2011 - Aug 2015
Senior Software Engineer @ University of Utah
Jun 2010 - Jun 2011
Software Engineer @ Dell Inc.
Sep 2008 - Jun 2010
PhD on Computer Graphics @ UFRGS

Ph.D., Computer Graphics and Image Visualization (Graduated with Honors) at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre City, Brazil.

Jun 2002 - Aug 2008
Bachelor Degree @ UFSM

BSc, Computer Science at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria City, Brazil.

Mar 1997 - May 2002
Get In Touch
Email:
cadietrich@gmail.com
User:
carlos_augusto_dietrich
URL:
linkedin.com/in/cadietrich