Many Updates Skipped

Post date: Mar 07, 2012 7:25:28 PM

So I've done a lot of exploring and learning on this and not posted many updates. I've been dumping research links into the links section with notes on each but nothing consolidated.

The first note is that I started playing with OpenCV on android instead of arduino. The reason I did so is because after I got the edge detection demo code running I started looking for sample code on object detection and just couldn't find any. There is however a ton of OpenCV object detection code out there.

OpenCV is an open source computer vision library from willowgarage. Willowgarage is a bit of a robotics research organization. They have several different robotic research platforms including turtlebot which is built on Roomba and Kinect.

more here http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

OpenCV does most of the heavy lifting for you by giving you access to functions that do a lot of the work you would otherwise have to write. There are functions for edge detection, corner detection even functions for image mapping using multiple different mechanisms. Sounds right up my ally right?

I'm going to break this up into multiple posts because they are on slightly different topics.