Automated Card Authentication

[kevinlenane]

Ill take a look at those scans - my email is kevinlenane@gmail.com for Google Docs access. Thank you for the offers - high res scans could work but the best thing is just close up pictures taken on a smart phone and uploaded to the below Google Drive link. There is an example in that google drive folder of the front and back of the cad:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f...GxCM13GRpy13B_

To explain a bit more on the image size preference - the general idea is to get the software working such that a general consumer can authenticate a card on their own smartphone device. So to create the best machine vision pipeline - the training data should be around that same resolution (which is sufficient for these purposes) Obviously id like to get my hands on some bulk imagery shot on a smart-phone but i will gladly dig through scans that could be similar size and use them as well if thats more what people have here. Alternatively if a site like VCP stores cards at a similar resolution to smart phone pictures the I would run a web scrape and grab a ton of images en masse - so thanks again for all the suggestions.

If someone out there happens to be sitting on a huge pile of raw Goudeys I would be willing to compensate someone for their time taking pictures of them. Obviously im trying to be somewhat economical in the POC stage given the but the real limiter right now is training data. I may need to come up with some creative ways to get this imagery if web scraping doesnt work - maybe compensating photos with actual cards or some other motivational exercise