Old Notes and Research

This is my original brain dump of the project unsorted and raw.

New notes and links are all added to the announcements feed and the links page.

Some links:

The original project where I saw this

http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm

Ironically Hack-a-day discovered this in may 2010

http://hackaday.com/2010/05/14/cat-door-unlocks-via-facial-recognition/

Here’s a bunch of stuff on facial recognition:

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceDetection

http://vimeo.com/5311678

http://forum.processing.org/topic/help-opencv-face-detection-arduino-servo-control

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/

OpenCV to take an image and render it down suitable for a dot matrix grid

http://chemicaloliver.net/arduino/usinga-webcam-with-opencv-to-display-video-on-an-led-matrix-controlled-by-arduino/

A forum discussion of making something useful

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1226951266

Video shield, input and output

http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/03/24/arduino-computer-vision-with-video-experimenter-shield/

EYE SHIELD this might be it.

http://arduino.cc/blog/2010/02/19/the-arduino-eye-shield/

A tutorial, awesome

http://nashruddin.com/opencv-examples-for-operation-on-images.html

Page 7 has some examples and links to about five other tutorials.

http://nashruddin.com/opencv-examples-for-operation-on-images.html/7/

Look at phase matching and template matching. I think I might end up using a combination of both. The template article is sparse but has sample code.

http://nashruddin.com/OpenCV_Region_of_Interest_%28ROI%29

These are the turtlebot folks. It looks like they might actually be hosting opencv. If not they at least have some good opencv resources.

http://www.willowgarage.com/

They also started a project called point cloud library (PCL) that has something to do with robotic video processing.

Processing Eclipse

http://wiki.processing.org/w/Eclipse_Plug_In

Arduino Eclipse

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/Eclipse

Books:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596516134/?tag=nashramin-20

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0122060938/?tag=nashramin-20

But none of this actually covers video capture with the Arduino. There is a video capture board but I would prefer to do it with a USB camera if that is possible. I actually have an old video camera that I can use for this with the video board but USB video would be more elegent.

Ooh other options. It really doesn’t have to be Arduino. I was thinking of that because of cost and size. Really anything that was small that I could run Linux on would do. Like, I dunno maybe an old linksys wifi router that I have sitting around in my garage......

hrm.. or maybe android. I do have an old phone lying around... now we're talking small+built in camera+battery backup. This is all sorts of win.