01.09
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CCCKC – OpenCV Computer Vision Study Group
Inspired by progress on our robotic labyrinth game we’ve started thinking about making a few minor changes. It just seems logical that we need to put an accelerometer under the playing surface and use a video camera with motion detection so a computer can play the game. Why jump around on a Wii Fit like a crazy person if you can sit and watch the computer play the game for you, right?
One small problem, we need to learn about computer vision so come to the meetings!
When: Bi-weekly on Thursday evenings from 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Meeting[0] = kickoff meeting held on Thursday Jan. 8, 2009;
Meeting[1] = scheduled for Thursday Jan. 22;
Where: Meeting[1] is planned at the JavaNaut coffee house at 1615 W. 39th. St. Kansas City, MO
Getting Started
Learning OpenCV text book
The book “Learning OpenCV – Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library” is suggested reading from the OpenCV Wiki to explain the library (actually it is the primary source of information). This book is written to be used as a text book for OpenCV classes. We hope to get through the first 12 chapters in about six sessions.
For more information and notes from the kickoff meeting check the blog at SomeoneKnows.
If anyone has additional notes please link to them in the comments.
BTW, we’re keeping the Wii Fit – it’s too cool to quit.
[...] La Wii Balance Board est un périphérique encore sous exploité par Nintendo mais qu’à cela ne tienne, les Geeks/bidouilleurs du monde entier n’ont de cesse de détourner son utilisation première à des fins plus ou moins loufoques. Après la Wii Balance Board permettant de se déplacer dans Google Earth ou au sein du jeu vidéo World of Warcraft voici la Wii Balance Board pour Labyrinthe casse tête… [...]
[...] A world of possibilities are out there to expand this project even further. I would like to build another Labyrinth game platform using stepper motors instead of servos. After we had the game working I began thinking about what it would be like to attach an accelerometer to the bottom of the board to detect motion of the playing surface. I began thinking about motion detection through a webcam and how cool it would be to get a computer to play the game for us. I started looking at some computer vision options so now we’ve started up the CCCKC OpenCV Study Group. [...]
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Do you guys still meet up about this project? I am just starting to get into opencv and would love to be able to discuss it
Contact Jestin Stoffel on this topic. jestin at cowtowncomputercongress dot org.