SUCCESS!!

Post date: Mar 07, 2012 9:47:21 AM

I made a copy of the OpenCV sample tutorrial 1 basic 1 and made some modifications so that instead of printing things in greyscale it would compare the image to my haar cascade.

IT WORKS!!!!

I have successfully matched a sample cat profile image.

Had some issues creating the haar cascade files themselves which caused me to have to minimise the cat face down to 24x24 pixels which I will work out later but I've got shape detection working.

I need to trim down my sample image to just the cats chin, clean the hell up out of the code and play some more.

You know I think it's time to start building the cat door.

HAH! to all you who said it was too hard. HA! I say. ^_^

Now I need to figure out how to get the control signal out of the android and into my controller for the door mechanism. I've read some articles about doing that on this specific samsung I'm working on I'll just have to dig them up. I might end up using the Arduino in the project in addition to the android to control the door mechanism.