[billbo911]

Foster, I have to agree with you on one point here, and respectfully disagree on another.

Originally Posted by Foster

Recent production increase of the Raspberry PI and a memory increase to 512 makes this a better choice as a co-processor. Delivery times are now ~14 days, so ordering now is a must.

Still love the Beagle Bone for the IO farm it has, but for a small vision processor the PI has moved to the front.

I think the PI has good potential to be an outboard video processor and am hoping to give it a try.

Originally Posted by Foster

I still think that computer vision isn't possible this year. Too much color differences between shops (crappy incandescent), practice field (florescent) and game fields (mercury and sodium). St Louis has the new SuperLux lamps to make color and brightness on TV work well. But I think the improvements in processors will let the vision sent back to the player station be a huge bonus.

Lighting variations between your shop and the playing field should have little or no affect on your performance.
If careful White Balance and Brightness calibrations are performed in your shop, and then again on the competition field, you should have very similar, if not identical outcomes.
By no means should you allow either of these values to run in Auto mode, especially the White Balance.

We have successfully used cRio vision processing for the last few years with solid results because we made sure we performed these calibrations in both locations.