Can Pixy detect flying badminton shuttle? If yes then with how much precision?
Hi Drishti,
I don’t know of anyone that has tried this. Whether Pixy can detect the shuttle or not depends on a few factors: shuttle color, size, distance from Pixy, lighting, etc. If you were in a fairly controlled environment then this might be possible, but my initial thought is the object would be too small for Pixy to reliably see since the court is large and Pixy would need to be further away to see the entire court.
Hope this helps.
Scott
Hi Scott,
Thank you for your response.
Actually I was looking for something which could help me with object recognition and I came across this Pixy. I liked it but there are some doubts which I want to clear before buying it.
In my case shuttle specifications are as per International standards; pixy will be on the field (i.e on one of the player/robo-player) and lightning and surrounding environment are just like a real indoor-stadium.
I went through the working concepts of pixy and I could recover that it can recognize object on the bases of colour codes ans it can detect only objects with some specific colours. In my case I have a shuttle of white colour (with no colour tags on it). Will it be able to detect in such conditions? And if not, can you suggest anything else?
Team Drishti
Hi Drishti,
It sounds like you have (mostly) an ideal setup. I made the incorrect assumption that Pixy would be placed outside of the court looking in. The biggest problem here is that the shuttle is white. White objects do not train well on Pixy. You need an object with a distinct “hue”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hue.
I’d suggest a brightly colored shuttle (if possible). Otherwise you could resort to modifying the Pixy firmware to detect luminance instead, which others on this forum have discussed (“here”:http://cmucam.org/boards/9/topics/2649). However, this may be just as difficult depending on your environment.
Let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck!
Scott