Official reef posts?

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I have a programmer on my team who is interested in making an openCV library that can identify the structural pose estimation of the reef posts. In other words, point the camera at the reef posts and be able to “see” where the points are. Think April tags, but instead of distance/angles to the tags, it can just see where the lines and joints of the purple posts are.

There are probably MUCH simpler ways to solve this challenge AND the concept may fail, but I want to encourage this idea!

Are there any well funded teams who plan on buying a full reef of the official purple posts? If so, could you help us out with very specific pictures of the posts from different coordinates?

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I’d also like to get the pics for our own vision dev.

I did a very quick (10-15 minutes) experiment with a pipeline that was just resize, HSV threshold, find contours, and two angle filters, and got pretty decent results to my human eye. It needs further processing to determine the full information algorithmically, but it sure seems doable. The pipeline I had ran in 7.7 ms on a 2019 Macbook, so that also seems feasible on a co-processor.