[Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-22 Thread andy pugh
A friend is a professional newt-spotter. He is an ecologist who has a lot of dealings with the Great Crested Newt, a protected species. Part of his work involves identifying individual newts by their distinctive orange and black belly markings. He has several hundred photos to check to figure out w

[Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-23 Thread Roland Jollivet
Have a look at www.Roborealm.com. It's great software, extremely versatile, low cost, and you get a trial period. Windows based. Since he has images on hand, he could use one of the image match modules, or reduce to monochrome blobs and use those. Regards Roland On 22 September 2015 at 16:12, a

Re: [Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-22 Thread Karlsson & Wang
Opencv http://opencv.org/ is the one i heard about. I am currently unemployed but have no experience with this, if not paid I am also busy with other things. On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:12:22 +0100 andy pugh wrote: > A friend is a professional newt-spotter. He is an ecologist who has a > lot of de

Re: [Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-22 Thread TJoseph Powderly
On 09/22/2015 09:12 AM, andy pugh wrote: > A friend is a professional newt-spotter. He is an ecologist who has a > lot of dealings with the Great Crested Newt, a protected species. > Part of his work involves identifying individual newts by their > distinctive orange and black belly markings. He ha

Re: [Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-22 Thread Ralph Stirling
) Subject: [Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts A friend is a professional newt-spotter. He is an ecologist who has a lot of dealings with the Great Crested Newt, a protected species. Part of his work involves identifying individual newts by their distinctive orange and black belly markings. He has

Re: [Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-22 Thread andy pugh
On 22 September 2015 at 15:26, TJoseph Powderly wrote: > try gussie-finknottle.com ? ( see PGWodehouse anyway ;) tomp I do actually recognise the reference, but Gussie and his newt-bothering ways would be illegal in modern times. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.c

Re: [Emc-users] Off topic. Open CV and Newts

2015-09-22 Thread Mark Wendt
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:12 AM, andy pugh wrote: > A friend is a professional newt-spotter. He is an ecologist who has a > lot of dealings with the Great Crested Newt, a protected species. > Part of his work involves identifying individual newts by their > distinctive orange and black belly mark