Machine Vision/Computer Vision Card App

[Bigdaddy]

Have you thought about copyright or patents?

There is a lot of open source software out there these days, but it might be best to make only the code available in executable form rather than source code.

In general, you don't want the bad guys to know where all your defenses are.

[BabyRuth]

Baseball Card Collecting - Rise of the Machines

[steve B]

This is pretty interesting.

I was talking about this (again, she must be getting sick of it) with my wife who is in the computer industry, and I was explaining how the sheer number of sets with varying degrees of challenge in picking out real vs fake automatically made it a difficult problem.

Her take was that it would be easier than I think, if it was done with a decent image library, some machine learning, and at first a person who knew the set essentially teaching the machine how to tell.

This seems to be essentially the same thing, perhaps without the human teacher, but working on one set that isn't too big, and that's also pretty consistent, with few if any small differences between examples of the same card. Unlike say T206, where each front comes in at probably at least 6 distinctly different versions.

I've been down on previous ideas for this, but I think this one could work.