chess-corners 0.2.0

High-level chessboard / ChESS corner detection API
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chess-corners

Ergonomic ChESS (Chess-board Extraction by Subtraction and Summation) detector on top of chess-corners-core.

This crate:

  • Re-exports the main types from chess-corners-core (ChessParams, CornerDescriptor, ResponseMap).
  • Provides a unified ChessConfig for single-scale and multiscale detection.
  • Adds optional image::GrayImage integration and a small CLI binary for batch runs.
  • Exposes pluggable subpixel refiners (RefinerKind via ChessParams::refiner) so you can choose between center-of-mass (default), Förstner, or saddle-point refinement.

Examples

By default the image feature is enabled so you can work directly with GrayImage:

use chess_corners::{ChessConfig, ChessParams, find_chess_corners_image};
use image::io::Reader as ImageReader;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let img = ImageReader::open("board.png")?
        .decode()?
        .to_luma8();

    let mut cfg = ChessConfig::single_scale();
    cfg.params = ChessParams::default();

    let corners = find_chess_corners_image(&img, &cfg);
    println!("found {} corners", corners.len());
    Ok(())
}

Selecting a refiner

The default refiner matches the legacy center-of-mass behavior. To opt into the Förstner or saddle-point refiners on image intensities:

use chess_corners::{ChessConfig, ChessParams, RefinerKind, find_chess_corners_image};

let mut cfg = ChessConfig::single_scale();
cfg.params = ChessParams::default();

let refiner = RefinerKind::Forstner(Default::default());
cfg.params.refiner = refiner;
let corners = find_chess_corners_image(&img, &cfg);

You can also override the refiner per call without mutating your config via find_chess_corners_image_with_refiner.

You can also try the bundled examples on sample images in testimages/:

  • Single-scale: cargo run -p chess-corners --example single_scale_image -- testimages/mid.png
  • Multiscale: cargo run -p chess-corners --example multiscale_image -- testimages/large.png

Both examples require the image feature, which is enabled by default. If you build with --no-default-features, re-enable it when running examples: --features image.

Feature flags:

  • image (default) – enable find_chess_corners_image for image::GrayImage.
  • rayon – parallelize response computation and multiscale refinement.
  • simd – enable portable-SIMD acceleration in the core response kernel (nightly only).
  • par_pyramid – opt into SIMD/rayon in the pyramid builder.
  • tracing – emit structured spans from multiscale detection and the CLI when enabled.

The full guide-style documentation and API docs are published at: