This week I started working on board-detection. Since our team agreed to first work on images of the board, I took a photo of our chessboard and tested the detection algorithm. As you can see from the picture below, it can detect the corners of the board and find the coordinates of the corners. The printed arrays are the x and y coordinates of each corner.
However, the issue is when chess pieces are on the board. I have figured out that the computer vision algorithm that I wrote no longer works when there are pieces on the board. So, I need to figure out how I should be finding the square tiles and their corners of the board when pieces are placed.
Furthermore, Joseph and I are working together on this part, and we are planning to test board-detection with photos that I took and move on to real-time detection of the board using a webcam. We already wrote some code on real-time detection, so I hope we can work more on board-detection with images next week and hopefully move on to real-time detection.