I need to basically detect an orange ball (a ping-pong ball) from various other objects. At a particular instant only one object would be present, the robot has to decide if that is desired object(orange ball) or not. I thought of using an avr-cam and do simple color detection and thats it!
But the problem is , there are orange objects of other shapes. I would like to know if simple edge detection is possible.It justs need to differentiate between the spherical ball from others. And its not that the robot would be moving very fast so that the image processing has to be done extremely quickly as in the case of soccer robots. But at the same time, the detection is must be reasonably fast.Some one plase let me know soon!