On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:56:03PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > I quoted the article earlier: > > "Two cameras sit low and close to the field, just off the first > and third baselines. They determine the batter's strike zone."
Which I read before, and which I said was not clear before. > There may actually be a human that clicks on a cursor twice, I'm > not sure. Human judgement call. > The letters should be a no-brainer for automation. Bzzzt. So there is an "uniform" arms race? > Knees can probably be recognized automatically...the pattern is fairly > straightforward, I think. I think not. > If not, then a click to get the knees is not all that hard. Human judgement call. > This is something for which there can be a lot of samples and tests > before the actual event. Just get a lot of folks in every baseball > uniform to walk out and have the system guess the height of the > letters and their knees. I do a different type of pattern recognition, > but this seems pretty straightforward to me. I think you underestimate the difficulty of the problem, especially when people have an incentive to try to "finesse" the system to their advantage. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
