Tracethat

• Michael Luciano
• Mohamed Elamin
• Stephanie Lopez
• Erik Quinlan

Our goal is to provide an easy to use and visually appealing mobile phone app that allows golfers to view the trajectory path of a golf ball after its been hit. Current apps on the market place today are at times inaccurate or unreliable, and a stable free to use option does not exist. Using a Windows or Android device, the user can upload a recording of another person swinging a golf club and hitting a ball. Before the video is processed, the user would be required to manually crop the video if it is too long. They will also need to initialize the starting position of the golf ball to ensure the correct object is being traced. This is particularly important in a setting where there may be multiple golf balls in frame, such as a driving range. Then, using the OpenCV library, the video processing will identify the path of the golf ball. As the ball is tracked, a line will be traced behind it resulting in an output video of the traced path of the golf ball as it flies through the air. From there the user is free to share the final product with friends or use it as a learning tool to improve their game. Our image processing utilizes OpenCV contours via thresholding, and does not have manufacturing or safety guidelines to follow being a software based project.