This week, I worked more on board-detection. Previously, I was working on an image converted into grayscale, and I tried converting a board image into black and white. Because of the lighting issue, when I convert the image into black and white, it wasn’t able to detect the corners of the board. So, Joseph and I decided to keep working on grayscale. The image below is an image when I convert the image to black and white, and as you can see from the image, part of the board gets cut off.
As I mentioned from my previous week’s status report, I had an issue detecting the board when there are pieces placed on the board. So, I tried detecting the edges of the board and find squared so that I can still coordinate corners when there are pieces on the board. When I detect the edges of the board, it also gives out the coordinates of each edge. Thus, I am hoping I can extract the coordinates of the edges of the squares. I am still in the process of working on my new way of board detection. And, I hope this works out well.
Besides, I also have set up the environment to take pictures of the board. Previously, I took pictures with my phone camera, but I can now take pictures with the webcam we bought. And, the result of board detection was the same when I used the new image from the webcam. Next week is the deadline for the board detection, so I will try to finish the board detection with pieces with my own way of detecting squares from the edges.
