Hi mr. Baudis! > we must have missed PhotoKifu when surveying the available software.
We're getting used to that. In Italy Go is completely unknown and everything related goes unnoticed. Months ago I showed the program to a colleague of mine, who shares many of my hobbies, and he asked "What is this? Chinese checkers?". > There will be a scientific conference at EGC 2015 as well: > > http://pasky.or.cz/iggsc2015/ > > I think a presentation of paper describing your system would find a very > interested audience. That's a fantastic new! After getting no reply from Sibiu last year we were afraid a second conference would never occur. We'll complete the paper soon and will attend the conference. We're already checking the accomodations in Liberec! > we aimed to first test the software on series of events - in (well lit) > Go clubs and on a larger tournament - starting the testing around now > to have enough time to test it sufficiently and notice things like sun > suddenly coming out of clouds, bumping the table, Go server streaming > issues etc. We did an extensive test in December 2012, at the Firenze Go tournament (http://www.eurogotv.com/tournament/showresults.php?toernooicode=T121208B). We realised our program (then version 1.0) only worked fine under good conditions - well lit environment, high point of view, limited number of "disturbances" in the pictures. We encountered dim lights (gobans' surfaces looked almost grey in the morning, completely grey in the afternoon), average points of view (40°-50° of elevation), and up to 60-70 pictures per game spoiled by fingers, hands, arms (sometimes of both players in the same picture, for example: http://i59.tinypic.com/10cnu5c.jpg). It took us a long time, but eventually we solved all these problems. We are now capable of analyzing without errors, taking just a bunch of milliseconds, even this kind of pictures: http://i61.tinypic.com/ak9zdv.jpg (this is probably the worst kind, speaking of "sun suddendly coming out of the clouds") > We also wanted to start talking around now to wms (KGS author) about > a possibility of extending kgsGTP computer program interface of KGS > to demonstration games. I would recommend you to reserve enough time > to working out these things too. Firenze's go players did ask us for such a thing (live feed on KGS). We're certainly going to work that out as soon as VideoKifu will be ready. > I think a good time to start discussing this with them [EGC's organizers] > would be after a first successful real-world tournament test (even on a > small scale like single board). Of course we'll let you know about the Pisa testing. We're now contacting the organizers and will likely be able to take pictures of 3 or 4 games, and print the Kifus immediately afterwards (in a matter of minutes, we hope). Greetings and thanks for your interest! mr. Andrea Carta _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
