Sportpxl Vision API
The photo API built for very large-scale volumes
Connect your registration platforms, results systems and internal tools to a single image-processing layer: image rights management, facial recognition, bib number detection, human review… all without disrupting your existing workflow.
An API designed for
major events and demanding agencies
Sportpxl Vision is built for organizations handling hundreds of thousands of photos and tens of thousands of participants:
Organizers
of large endurance events (running, trail, cycling, triathlon…)
Photo agencies
specialized in sports and live events
Platforms
Registration or results platforms looking for a robust “photo” component
Media & tech companies
that want to keep full control of their front-end while outsourcing image intelligence
Industrialize your photo workflows without changing your tools
Sportpxl Vision is an image-processing API that plugs directly into your ecosystem:
- Connection to registration platforms (Njuko, proprietary solutions, etc.)
- Granular image rights management, participant by participant
- Large-scale facial recognition (with optional selfie at registration)
- Automatic bib number detection and profile matching
- Optional human review for edge cases
- Seamless integration with results platforms and front-end interfaces
You keep your tools, pages and apps. We provide the intelligence and reliability layer for photo processing.
How does it work?
Registration integration
- Connection to your registration platforms (e.g. Njuko or custom solutions)
- Data collection: identities, bib numbers, emails…
- Individual consent management (image rights & facial recognition)
- Pre-order management
- Optional selfie at registration
Image processing
- Bulk photo ingestion
- Face detection and recognition
- Bib number reading
- Facial recognition opt-out management
- Automatic photo masking in case of image rights refusal
- Confidence score calculation
Human review (optional)
- Queuing of “uncertain” cases
- Validation and correction interface (your teams or ours)
- Full audit trail of changes
Distribution & integration
- Participant ↔ photos ↔ results mapping
- Gallery links
- Quality indicators
- Integration into results platforms, event websites, mobile apps and internal tools
Two usage modes
API-only mode
You already have your own interfaces (website, app, back-office) and storage services.
- You upload photos to your own storage (or standard storage like S3)
- You call the Sportpxl Vision API to:
- analyze photos (faces, bibs),
- apply image rights rules,
- retrieve structured metadata (participant ID, bib number, confidence scores, URLs, etc.)
- You distribute photos in your own environments: organizer websites, custom mobile apps, agency portals, client extranets…
👉 You keep 100% control over UX and business.
Sportpxl Vision remains a powerful, invisible component in your tech stack.
Front + API mode: storage & processing by Sportpxl, distribution via your API
You want to delegate the heavy lifting (storage, processing, photo interface) while keeping deep integration with your tools?
- Photos are hosted and processed on the Sportpxl front-end (upload, indexing, browsing, optional sales).
- Sportpxl Vision manages:
- the full processing pipeline (facial recognition, bibs, image rights),
- the user interface for runners and participants,
- order tracking if needed.
- The API returns:
- photo links per participant,
- consolidated statistics,
- data to enrich your results platforms, apps or CRM.
👉 You benefit from Sportpxl’s proven front-end while integrating photo data into your systems via the API.
Typical use cases
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