Puzzle Master 9000: The Jigsaw Puzzle-Helping App

HMC INQ Computer Science, 2019-20

Liaison(s): Josh Jones ’98
Advisor(s): Bob Keller (F), Zach Dodds (S)
Students(s): Adrian Garcia, Celena Chen, Djassi Julien, Mazda Moayeri, Sydney Wallace (PM)

The Puzzle Master 9000: The Jigsaw Puzzle-Helping App takes as input a bird’s eye image of individual puzzle pieces—or partially-assembled combinations of pieces. From that image, the application extracts each contour and runs a variety of vision-based comparisons in order to find pairs of pieces with the highest probable fit. The most likely edge-to-edge fittings are then highlighted as output and as guidance for the user.