2011-2012-Project Chessboard

Project Chessboard

by Aart Jan Kaptijn and Dirk Nederveen

The Idea

Create a system that could do real time analysis of a physical chessboard, using a web cam and a projector as in and output devices. It should be able to analyze the current position of the game and give hints for the next move.

Software

To analyze the physical pieces we used the openCV library in combination with a SIFT algorithm. OpenCV handles the input stream from the web cam and the SIFT algorithm detects features of a sample image in the input stream. To analyze the position of the game we would use the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) to communicate with a chess analysis back end.

Results

Unfortunately due to wrong assumptions we didn't get past the calibration of the input image.