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

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 …