Tarik

I want to make an installation in which I place a camera above a surface of 4x4 m.

On this surface I want to place objects and I want my computer to recognize those objects. I have ten different sorts of objects and I want my patch to see which sort of objects I have placed on this surface, where they are and how they're rotated. The surface is also being lighted a beamer.

Now I wonder how some of you who are more experienced in this kind of stuff would approach such a project...

I myself was thinking of placing different patterns of colored led-lights on top of these objects so the computer would only have to analyze the very brightest parts of the incoming frames and recognize the lighting patterns created by these lights.

I also know Java so if there would be some suggestions which include Java-programming that won't be a problem.

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i'd use the cv.jit objects (check maxobjects.com for the dl location) if you want to experiment with rolling your own.

otherwise, I'd just grab the software from here:

and build your installation around the already provided tools!

i'd use the cv.jit objects (check maxobjects.com for the dl location) if you want to experiment with rolling your own.
otherwise, I'd just grab the software from here:
http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?software
and build your installation around the already provided tools!


The main problem you'll encounter by mounting the camera above the table is occlusion - ie: hands, arms, heads etc blocking the light from your LEDs.

If it were me, I'd be less inclined to try and re-invent the wheel, mount the camera underneath a clear perspex table top, use Reactivision and the TUIO external for Max/MSP, place fiducial markers on the bottom of the objects and let Reactivision track them.

You may well be more adventurous than me, and if you want to create a blob tracking system, you'll probably want to have a look at Jean-Marc Pelletier's cv.jit externals.

Best of luck with it, sounds like an interesting project.

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