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.


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