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Detecting rectangles with the camera and Java

I'm a programmer for my team and I'm working on autonomous during the offseason, but for it to work properly, the robot has to be parallel with the sides of the field. I was thinking of aligning the robot to face the plexi sheet in front of the drivers' area, but I really have no idea how to make the robot actually recognize that rectangle. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Detecting rectangles with the camera and Java

Apply an edge finding (both vertical and horizontal) algorithm. Try to scale your image down first (< 100x100) and take the grey scale for optimization.

Try the simplistic kernel of

Code:

1 -1

for horizontal edge and

Code:

1

-1

for vertical edge,

I assume that your "rectangle" will look like

Code:

  / \

 /   \

/     \

as it seems to be on the ground, so go through your filtered image and try to recognize those pattern with something like a machine learning algorithm

Either way, it's pretty tough...