real-life-chess-vision

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.

The Process

Demo

Instructions

1. Download the chess-pieces detection YOLO model from from this link. (the file is too big to host on github)

2. Open app.ipynb - everything is in there.