I love it when toys of the big boys finally become everyone’s. According to Hizook’s blog, mass-affordable cameras that offer depth perception (aka RGB-D or “ranging” cameras) may finally hit the store shelves this year. This statement echoes what Dr. Deiter Fox of Intel Research Labs has proclaimed during his presentation last January at the [...]
Recently, I have been experimenting with Numenta’s Vision Toolkit and NuPIC software. These two noteworthy products let developers, researchers and individuals alike create intelligent apps that can recognize objects or perform other complex tasks that involve learning, inference and prediction. Both tools are available from the Numenta website, albeit under a “play but don’t deploy” [...]
My game plan for building a vision system for my robot project has taken a sharp turn. Initially I had intended to use OpenCV’s object detection modules to build a classifier that can tell apart different kinds of common household objects: ball, doll, shoe, etc.– you know, things that a roaming bot would likely encounter. [...]
Do you ever wonder why booting up a computer takes soo long? Why doesn’t it turn on instantly like a TV or DVD player? As it turns out, engineers at MontaVista Software thought the same thing, and have finally figured out how to tweak Linux to boot in under 1 second … yes, that’s “1″ [...]
Over the last 3 weeks, I’ve been busy putting together my iGEPv2 embedded development system. Initially my goal was well defined: use the pre-built SDK Virtual Machine provided by ISEE as the cross-compiler, install Android OS on the iGEPv2 board, get the PS3 Eye webcam to work and install OpenCV. With this basic setup, I [...]