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Re: Machine learning?

"Machine Learning" covers a lot of ground, but there are aspects that might work. Heavy emphasis on "might".

On the web you can find a whole lot of tutorials on using a Haar Cascade to recognize faces and other things---but mostly faces, all using opencv My guess is that a hopper has enough similarity to a face that it would be a good candidate. I can't claim to have tried it. My own experience with Haar Cascade training is pretty limited, but it worked with faces. On the other hand, I never got it working with last year's boulders.

To the last post's point, you will need several examples of a real picture of a real hopper.


On the other hand, if your goal is to recognize a hopper, as opposed to studying machine learning, some more traditional HSV filtering, dilation and selection might do a better job of recognizing a hopper. There aren't many big yellow-green areas at hopper height. My own goal is to use that method late in the season to try and dump a hopper during autonomous, but that's weeks ahead. At our first competition I will just be recording video to use as training images.
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