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3d code graphics gui opencv programming qt vision

Moving to Qt on the SfM-Toy-Library project

Qt GUI for SfMToyLibFor those of you still interested, I’ve made the move to using Qt and QGLViewer in the SfM-Toy-Lib project. Getting rid of PCL dependency (I think it’s a bloated library), and burying FLTK long in the past, I feel much better about it now.
Get it on github: https://github.com/royshil/SfM-Toy-Library

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code programming qt

CMake build for QExtSerialPort for all those lonely cross-platform Qt4 projects

rect6492So QSerialPort only became part of Qt core on Qt5.1, but what should all those Qt4 projects do for an easy serial port access?
There is the excellent QExtSerialPort project, but it only has a QMake build system, and I like CMake!
Not to worry, a CMake build is easy to set up…

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code ffmpeg

Finding FFMPEG with CMake

I haven’t found a CMake module to find FFMPEG libraries, so I wrote one (a while back) and I thought to share it.
It will look very hard in order to find it on *nix and Win all the same, and I found it useful.
Get the gist: https://gist.github.com/royshil/6318407

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Extending the hand tracker with snakes and optimizations [w/ code, OpenCV]

I wish to report of a number of tweaks and additions to the hand silhouette tracker I posted a while back. First is the ability for it to “snap” to the object using a simple Active Snake method, another is a more advanced resampling technique (the older tracker always resampled after every frame), and of a number of optimizations to increase the speed (tracker now runs at real-time on a single core).

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graphics opencv video vision

OpenNI 2.x and OpenCV interoperability [w/ code]

For those of you using OpenCV that are looking to upgrade from OpenNI 1.x to the new OpenNI 2.x, here’s a bit of code to make life a tiny bit easier. It simply wraps the OpenNI 2.x APIs to expose a simple frame grabber for OpenCV.

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FFMPEG video writer – now with animated GIF support [w/ code]

rect3825So animated gifs are awesome if you’re writing a software blog. It saves all this time working with YouTube embeddings and stuff, and your “videos” are stored locally. The simplified FFMPEG writer was before unable to output animated GIFs, but I’ve tweaked it and now it does. It’s also a nice piece of code to learn how to FFMPEG in C.

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code electronics video

C++ library for the C329 SPI camera module [w/ code]

Just putting it out there for whoever is trying to use the C329 camera module of the SPI variety (the URAT module has code posted online)

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code ffmpeg programming video

Simplified FFMPEG video writer (also for OpenFramework) [w/ code]

I want to share a little snippet in case anyone is interested in writing video files from cpp context using FFMPEG, I’ve made it for usage with OpenFrameworks.
It’s basically a simple wrapper around the encoding mechanism of FFMPEG, so you can easily just say which file to write to and start dumping images into it. It will take care of choosing the codec, writing headers and trailers, encode (compress) the frames and write them to the file.

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Curve tracking with a Heap&Hogg's Particle Filters [w/ code, OpenCV]

Screen Shot 2013-03-15 at 6.18.30 PM I wanna share some code for 2D curve tracking with a particle filter, implementing the body of work of Tony Heap and David Hogg. These guys presented a relatively easy to implement method for tracking deformable curves through space and change in form using a Hierarchical Point Distribution Models (HPDM), which is another elegant way to store shape priors. Granted, it is not perfect, but for a simple 2D shape like a hand it works pretty good, and rather fast as well.
Let’s dive in then,