[Swistrack-users] [SwisTrack] Newsletter June, 15th

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Contents:

1. Official SwisTrack publication
2. New projects using SwisTrack
3. New features/re-design
4. OpenSource Release upcoming

1. Official SwisTrack publication
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Fortunately, our paper  "SwisTrack: A Tracking Tool for Multi-Unit Robotic
and Biological Systems" as well as the accompanying video have been accepted
for publication at the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems
as one of around 1000 papers and 35 videos respectively.
Please find more details and a camera-ready version in due course on

http://infoscience.epfl.ch/search.py?recid=85929&ln=fr

The video can be found at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6191467557059762009

Both the paper and video were very well received by the reviewers, and we
are
looking forward to presenting SwisTrack to a large audience this October in
Bejing.

2. New projects using SwisTrack
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Julien Nembrini, PostDoc at the SWIS group will use SwisTrack for visual
servoing of
a fleet of miniature robots "E-Puck", which requires implementation of
marker based tracking, and the computation of objects orientation.
Pierre Roduit, PhD student at SWIS, will use SwisTrack for trajectory
analysis
of a single robot, and will improve robustness of the image segmentation
routines.

3. New features / Re-design
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SwisTrack is in the process of  major redesign. The software architecture's
modularity has
been increased, and all parameters are now managed in a unified XML
description that
is shared among the different SwisTrack components, and can be queried using
the
x-path language (thanks to libxml2).
This will ease implementation of new features drastically. In particular,
developers that
need to implement a new feature are most likely not required to make any
changes on the
GUI of SwisTrack, which is dynamically created based on an XML configuration
file.
Also, parameters do not  to be passed from the GUI through the entire
class hierarchy, which eases debugging and maintenance.

4. OpenSource Release upcoming
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The source code of SwisTrack will be released in the very near future on
SourceForge,
SVN check-out will be then be publicly available. It is however recommended
to wait for
a stable release version, which will be announced on this mailing list.
Please continue using Sourceforges bug and feature tracking mechanisms
meanwhile.

Thanks for your support,
Nikolaus


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Nikolaus Correll
http://swis.epfl.ch/people/nikolaus
EPFL IC ISC GR-MA (Swarm-Intelligent Systems Group)
Building BC, Room  242
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Phone: +41 21 69 36890
Fax: +41 21 693 67 00
Mob. +41 76 4328125