Yes! CVCinema‘s first short film has already been selected in two of the experimental film festivals it was submitted.
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“At one’s fingertips”, CvCinema’s first shortfilm!
We are glad to announce the release of the first experimental shortfilm of the Computer Vision Cinema system. The raw footage was processed by the system, which determined the cuts and framing of the output, based on movement detection algorithms, such as frame differencing, background substraction or brightness tracking. Continue reading ‘“At one’s fingertips”, CvCinema’s first shortfilm!’
3d point cloud blob tracking & targeting with kinect and a robotic pan-tilt turret
After exploring the possibilities of using opencv 2d algorithms for 3d tracking with 3d depth buffer images, we decided to work directly with the 3d point cloud data to perform a better and more versatile 3d tracking.
Robotic PAN-TILT turret
This is the (painfull) process how we got working a Trossen WidowX turret.
Zenital 3D traking with Kinect and OpenCv
We finally got working the code for the “detection room” installation. There were a few problems to sort out before achieving an acceptable accuracy.
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Arduino Roomba library experimentals
As part of the experimentation with an Arduino controlled iRobot Create, we played with Mike McCauley’s Roomba library for Arduino.
The library basically implements the routines to send the commands explained in the Open Interface documentation so that you can easily send to the robot task like “move forward at this speed”, etc., without having to worry about the serial communication. It also handles to request and read the robot’s sensors data, but we still haven’t experimented this.
Arduino controlled iRobot Create
We’ve been testing an iRobot Create to control it with an arduino. The tests are part of a project by Matt Gray and Golan Levin at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. But they are also very usefull for our research, as we may evaluate this platform as a potential candidate to develop a mobile robotic filming system.
The detection room
In this post we will explain the systems we will develop for the detection room of the installation. Continue reading ‘The detection room’
Projecting an interactive installation for early September
It’s been a while since we put the last post. But we haven’t been idle. We have been doing some experimentation for a further installation we are preparing. After a break for the preparation of a stay abroad we arrived at our destinations and are now able to keep researching. Francisco is hosted at the Centro Multimedia in Mexico DF and I (David) am a research scholar visiting the Studio for Creative Inquiry, in the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Continue reading ‘Projecting an interactive installation for early September’
Kinect as detector for the cvcinema system
After successfully setting up the kinect to develop with OpenNI / NITE /openFrameworks / codeblocks under Linux, I made a little application to make the user detection with PrimeSense’s NITE libraries.
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