At last I've ported my stereoscopic vision demo to Windows, with substantially improved performance all round. At present I've been testing it with some new Pyro 1394 cameras which give a guaranteed 30fps, but to change it to Quickcam Express all you need to do is change the filter name within one of the source files.
This system is based on the Birchfield matching algorithm, and I doubt you'll find anything comparable within the Intel or MS vision SDKs. I did try the Intel stereo system a few months back and it performed abominably because it's based on the more traditional method of trying to match distinctive features (the features needed to be specified manually at the beginning and the subsequent tracking of them was appalingly bad).
The windows demo needs VC++ 6.0 and the MS DirectX SDK in order to run. Large objects such as a person are easily identified within a 2m range, and I could probably use this to develop a fairly reliable face detection system.
Hi guys and welcome to 2003 !
At last I've ported my stereoscopic vision demo to Windows, with substantially improved performance all round. At present I've been testing it with some new Pyro 1394 cameras which give a guaranteed 30fps, but to change it to Quickcam Express all you need to do is change the filter name within one of the source files.
This system is based on the Birchfield matching algorithm, and I doubt you'll find anything comparable within the Intel or MS vision SDKs. I did try the Intel stereo system a few months back and it performed abominably because it's based on the more traditional method of trying to match distinctive features (the features needed to be specified manually at the beginning and the subsequent tracking of them was appalingly bad).
The windows demo needs VC++ 6.0 and the MS DirectX SDK in order to run. Large objects such as a person are easily identified within a 2m range, and I could probably use this to develop a fairly reliable face detection system.
Enjoy,
- Bob
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