checkers robot camera vision

hey all. i am working on my final project which is checkers robot. i need some help with the vision system, where the camera of robot have to detect the checkers board and the pieces plus the color of the pieces, but i am afraid and don't know how to start as i am new to Matlab. any suggestions please ! and if anyone can give me some code to begin i would really appreciate that. thank you :)

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See my Image Segmentation Tutorial in my File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862

Answer 2

[Dima Lisin]

There is a function called detectCheckerboardPoints in the Computer Vision System Toolbox.

[Ahmad toufaily]

yeah Dima i tried it but it seems that the computer vision system toolbox is not installed. any other methods please !

[Image Analyst]

Post your image. Is it an image of a checkerboard with checker pieces on it that one of more robots are playing a game of? If it it, post an image. But likely about all the help we could give is to give you demos of how to segment the image to find the pieces. That's why I gave you links to my File Exchange which has color segmentation demos. You can XOR the "no pixels on" image with the image with the checker pieces on it to find out which squares have pieces on them. But we can't really write a whole checker-playing application for you. It's just too much work for volunteers like us to donate to you.