[sldev] Anyone here with OpenCV experience?

[Jan Ciger]

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Philip Rosedale wrote:
> Have you seen this video...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gn2TyEyHw
> 
> It is a cheap logitech camera tracking a head and head rotation really
> well (which you can see by the registration quality of the video overlay).
> 
> This is what we want - simple head position and movement tracking from a
> camera.  I suppose we could just use the logitech API but that would
> restrict us to their cameras.  I believe that the code they ship with
> their cameras is based on OpenCV?  Hence the question. 
> 
> Philip

Another thing I have realized - if you want to track left-right rotation
(as opposed to tilting the head or translating it), you could use some
optic flow based algorithm. Again, there is a plenty of that.

Regards,

Jan
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