Very very nice! On Aug 12, 2014 5:15 AM, "Aja Huang" <ajahu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm dreaming about this scene in EGC 2015.. > > Several cameras are relaying the games of the best players. A smart optical > recognition program automatically converts the streaming images to sgfs > and sends them to a Go program. The Go program then shows rich analyses > over the games, such as wining rate, best moves, principal variations, > estimated territories, etc, even predicts the next moves. A spectator is > watching a friend's game and wondering who is ahead. He doesn't understand > Go very well. He uses his android phone takes a snapshot. After 3 seconds, > the Go software oh his phone immediately tells him that his friend is ahead > for 20 points and winning with 90% chance. > > It's more of just a dream though. :-) > > Aja > > > 2014-08-12 12:35 GMT+01:00 Petr Baudis <pa...@ucw.cz>: > >> Hi! >> >> Tomas Musil (a student of mine), has created a state-of-the-art open >> source Go board optical recognition software. We have focused on >> completely automatic runs, so it automatically detects the board corners >> and then the stones on the board, and the precision seems pretty good >> at least in reasonable lighting conditions. >> >> You can find it at http://tomasm.cz/imago together with a lot of >> pictures, documentation and bachelor thesis describing the algorithms >> in detail. In the thesis, Tomas also compares it against other similar >> apps, and it appears Imago shows the best performance of all these >> that were available to us. >> >> Unfortunately, we specifically couldn't easily compare it to Remi >> Coulom's Kifu-snap for multiple reasons - mainly because that is >> a mobile app. Hopefully, someone will be able to compare these two >> in the future. At any rate, I think Imago is a great starting point >> for anyone who would like to play with Go board recognition. >> >> >> My personal dream would be if we added video capability and further >> improved speed + reliability in time for EGC2015 (in Czech Republic) >> and were able to deploy it there to transfer large number of top boards. >> But this will depend on how much time Tomas will have after the summer >> (and we didn't actually check with EGC2015 organizers yet), so it's >> still more of just a dream. :-) >> >> Petr Baudis >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@dvandva.org >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@dvandva.org > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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