Tag: opencv

Facial Appearance Modeling/Tracking


I’ve been working on developing a method for automatic head-pose tracking, and along the way have come to model facial appearances. I start by initializing a facial bounding box using the Viola-Jones detector, a well known and robust detector used …

Keyframe based modeling

Playing with MSERs in trying to implement an algorithm for feature-based object tracking.  The algorithm first finds MSERs, warps them to circles, describes them with a SIFT descriptor, and then indexes keyframes of sift vectors by using vocabulary trees.   Of …

OpenCV 1.2.0 (2.0 Beta)

Win32 installer

Taken from the changelog:

New functionality, features: <<< – General:
* The brand-new C++ interface for most of OpenCV functionality
(cxcore, cv, highgui) has been introduced.
Generally it means that you will need to do less coding to achieve the same

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Memory

I’ve recently finished up a project in collaboration with a Glass Artist, Agelos Papadakis. We built a structure of 25 glass neurons the size of a face and chainded them together in a 3x3x5 meter sculpture. We had 2 cameras …