ChessQueries: Toward Better Chess Board Recognition
Chess board recognition is the task of mapping the image of a chess board to the information of which piece is on which square. So far this task has two established benchmarks: ChessCog is synthetic, and ChessReD comes from smartphone pictures of a single chess board setup. We introduce ChessQueries, a new method combining a ViT encoder with a DETR-style decoder, which outperforms existing methods. On the ChessReD benchmark, we improve the state of the art from 15.3% to 99.2%, and demonstrate strong capabilities on out-of-distribution datasets. Our method saturates the task on the two datasets, with an average 0.01 wrong squares per board (vs. SotA: 3.4 / 0.15 respectively). We also share...
| Authors | Joël Seytre |
|---|---|
| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 31 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 31 August 2026 |
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