FYI, A few months back, Seth Woodworth (irc/isforinsects) and I did some brainstorming about stop motion and webcam ideas. But both of us got distracted on other projects.... here's the notes and comments that we gathered during our investigation...
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Project/Webcam I'm sure you'd get some feedback from both of us, if any similar project started to get off the ground. :) -Ixo On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Chris Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > The webcam on the XO sure has a lot of potential for cool killer apps. > For example things with > - Motion Tracking > - Gesture Recognition > - Face Recognition > - Object Identification > - ... > > Recently I came in touch with OpenCV > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opencv) -- it's a open source > image-recognition library developed by intel, which does exactly this > kind things. It's also a library commonly used for robotics. > > Anyone here ever played with OpenCV before? I will slowly have a deeper > look into it during the next months, as I am taking a course in image > recognition. Wonder if it works well and fast on the XO. Then it could > even make sense to put effort in a kind of Python API, and examples. > > If it works fast enough, I'm sure it will be lots of fun playing with > this library and image recognition :) > > - Chris > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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