A Real Time 8-Ball Pool Helper to help you find and calibrate the most optimal shot.
This week was mostly spent by the team working on the group ethics assignment and on our individual parts. All 3 subsystems are making significant progress and we are still on track with our schedule. The only significant risk to the project right now is …
This status report is going to cover the weeks of Feb 27th to March 4th and March 5th to March 11th. For the former week: During this week we finally got a hold of the wood required to build the frame. Jimmy and I made …
This week was a little slow. We picked up the wood and started work on the frame. I wrote up a decent chunk of the code for the shot calculation algorithm. Ran into a few bugs with line creation between two points and then checked whether or not an object lies on that line since we have to account for the radius of the cue ball and the radius of all balls in the ball’s movement. As of right now, the heuristic will simply not account for chained shots, and if we can figure out the entire system then that could be modified. All parts of the frame including the tools required have been sourced. Plan on building by Feb 26th. We got a little delayed with the construction of the frame because of extraneous circumstances this week however, with the progress made on optimal pool shot calculation we should be okay overall. For the next week, I plan on finalizing heuristics, finish the construction of the pool table frame, and iron out logistics with Jimmy for the integration of CV into the system.
This week I designed modeling the frame. We did the math for how high the camera and projector need to be placed from the pool table for optimal image capturing and projection (the height is about 4 feet from the pool table’s surface). Knowing this, …
Like Jimmy, I too fell mildly sick on Wednesday and thus haven’t been able to work to full capacity. I started on modelling the what the frame for the camera and the projector system would look like. It shall be 4 feet above the pool …
We are building a real-time 8-ball pool helper with an attached Augmented Reality system and a smart cue stick. A camera attached to a frame above the table will be capturing the game state at any given moment, using Computer Vision and an in-house algorithm to determine the best shot, use sensors to help you align the cue stick to the right angle (with on stick feedback) and project the line that needs to be followed from the cue ball to the target ball to the pocket.