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 <[email protected]>: > 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 > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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