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From: peterhi@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Shooting pigeons
Message-ID: <4754@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 91 10:53:38 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
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I'm looking for some references to help me with my second year ( sorry I don't
know what that's called in American ) Artificial Intelligence project. In a
moment of pure insanity I submitted my project as to "Design and build a
system that that shoot clay pigeon" the basis of the design is that everything
can be done with a single camera and no more information than a shooter would
have. There are three broad areas that I have to look at.

    1)  Looking at the whole sky I need to detect significant notion ( other
        than that of the clouds or trees etc ) where in therory a clay pigeon
        is flying.

    2)  Locate the clay in the area of activity and find it's centre.

    3)  Calculate its trajectory and predict where it will be.

    4)  Blast the ****** out of the sky.

Point 3 seems to me to be the easiest and point 4 could well be academic as I
have only 15 weeks as of Monday but what I should do for points 1 and 2 is
much more open and I would greatly appreciate any references that you may feel
that could be of help to me. The books I have gone through here on Computer
Vision and Image Processing do not seem to cover the ground that I require in
that they all assume static images of toy worlds. I need a mechanics outlook
on the problems not a theorists at this stage.

Any help greatfully received,

Peter Hi

        Peter "You're doing computing as an ARTS degree!" Hickman
      COGS U/G PH, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH
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