| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:40:08 +0200 |
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:57:36AM -0400, Michael F. Robbins wrote: > Are there other languages or libraries that make > getting at the images easy? Ahem: http://www.palantir.swarthmore.edu/~maxwell/research_presentation.html Vision is, in brief, what Bruce does. If you want to start from or look at how all of the Swarthmore robots do vision (with minor modifications, probably), grab this: http://www.palantir.swarthmore.edu/~maxwell/vision/svmf01.tgz (I hope they got around to documentation... ;^>) This can do things like: http://www.palantir.swarthmore.edu/~maxwell/classes/e27/S01/indexpict.jpg which relates to: http://www.palantir.swarthmore.edu/~maxwell/classes/e27/S01/ (Computers doing facial- and shirt-color-recognition; yes, they use this in robots. That's a photo from the yearly robot competition, from the eyes of one of Swarthmore's.) http://www.palantir.swarthmore.edu/~maxwell/classes/e26/F00/ (Note the C source code from the text book down at the bottom, though the link seems less than lively at the moment. You would do well to at least play with Bruce's lab assignments on that page.) You'll end up wanting to learn linear algebra (presuming you haven't already) so that you can write your own matrix transforms. If you start getting really fancy (and there are some reasons it'd make stuff like stereo vision--which is really hard, btw, not to dissuade you from doing it--faster), you may also want to know some multi-var calc. But for now, you could easily steal someone else's matrix math library. You should have an idea of how it's doing what it's doing, of course. Oh, I forgot to mention it before, but what you're doing in Visual Basic, I'm used to doing in VHDL (Virtual Hardware Description Language). See: http://www.palantir.swarthmore.edu/~maxwell/classes/e25/S01/ That is, you can get programmable boards like yours where what you do is define a circuit's properties in the same way you would if you were designing one to be printed on silicon (or gallium arsenide, whatever)... which is not by laying out traces by hand, but using something very much like a programming language (VHDL). I have no idea if such a board would be more expensive to you or not, but the language for dealing with it is more like how people really program chips these days. I've used what must be an older version of this: http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-flex_dev_kit.html for that before. I doubt this one's cheap, so you may well be better off stick with what you've got for now. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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