Chess Recognition

Shai karnei – Reem Nathan Meisels

Motivation

For this project we aimed to detect chess pieces and their location.

UI

• Simple – take a picture – get a picture back with Homography and pieces type and location.

Algorithm

Image captured

Canny

Hough Line Transform

Algorithm

Take outer Board lines

homography

Split to 8x8 grid

Algorithm

Run template matching on each square and return piece type and location

result

result

Bad resultBad hough line detection => bad Homography => Bad board and pieces detection