README.md

Catch Practice Bot

Detecting Target Person assissting Catch Practice using OpenCV

Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Tech Stack
  • File Structure
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage
• Results and Demo
• Troubleshooting
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements and Resources

About The Project

Aim and Description of project.
Refer this documentation

Tech Stack

• OpenCV
• Camera & World Co-ordinate System
• HOG, SVM Algorithms
• Person Detection & NMS
• ROS
• Gazebo

File Structure

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├── detect.py               # Python code used for final extraction of target co-ordinates 
├── Coordinate_OpenCV       # Finding World and Camera Coordinates  
├── PycharmProjects/OpenCV  # Required OpenCV basics
├── docs                    # Documentation files (alternatively `doc`)
│   ├── report.pdf          # Project report
│   └── results             # Folder containing screenshots, gifs, videos of results
├── Pictures                # Practice Files used for OpenCV
├── images                  # Final result test images
├── ...
├── LICENSE
├── README.md 

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• List of softwares with version tested on

Download and run Python3 file for suitable OS from the link

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Download and run pip3 for suitable OS Refer the below link for further instructions

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

Installation

• Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/dhairyashah1/Eklavya20-CatchPracticeBot

• Run the following command to install required packages

pip3 install -r "requirements.txt"

Usage

python3 detect.py -i images

Results and Demo

Find detailed output video here

• Green Rectangle:

Shows Detected Person

• Red Rectangles:

Area within the reach of the person wherein launch is to be executed

• Blue Point Circle:

Selected random point in specified area for launch

Troubleshooting

• Use wheel files if you are having trouble while installing python packages(Generally happens with windows 8 or earlier operating systems)

Contributors

• Dhairya Shah
• Prathamesh Tagore
• Atharva Alshi
• Mayuresh Mane

Mentors

• Omkar Sargar
• Saharsh Jain
• Preeti Jain
• Shantanu Pande

Acknowledgements and Resources

• SRA VJTI
• Person Detection
• Co-ordinate Extraction
• OpenCV Basics