A computer vision application that identifies pieces on a chess board from real-life photos. by Shai Nisan, Ph.D.
This is a computer vision application that identifies pieces on a chess board from real-life photos and converts it to a digital format (Lichess). You can use it you quickly save real-life chess games for later continuation, as well as to get move suggestions from different chess engines such as Stockfish.
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Download the chess-pieces detection YOLO model from from this link. (the file is too big to host on github)
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Open app.ipynb - everything is in there.