This week I continued my work on piece detection. Currently we are using HoughCircles and HoughLines to determine board and piece location. I’ve also been working with Lillie on the website, I’ve created a basic design for the website, which Lillie will then implement.
My main goal this upcoming week is to work with image subtraction to be able to detect movement. I anticipate that this will require some changes to the Hough algorithms, and will work on changing them to work best with motion detection. Another plan is to possibly change the way board line detection is performed, such that we only detect the outermost edges, and divide their lengths to find the inner squares, this should use less memory, and video processing power. After this, which may have to be the following week, I hope to start interfacing this with the arduino and cnc controller. I anticipate that connecting these two may require the RaspberryPi to output different information about the locations, and will have to change this accordingly.