It took some time to get it to work, but with trial and error and cutting out multiple combinations of checkerboards, I might have got OpenCV to detect the board. The problem was the pattern …
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Week 10
This week, a chessboard pattern was printed out and tested with multiple pictures of my face and my roommate Julian’s face. OpenCV’s chessboard detector method wouldn’t quite work on us but the problem seems to …
After some trial and error for finding the distance in pixel, a (potentially tentative) solution has been found. Actually, two different solutions were found which yielded me different results with the picture I was testing: …
Week 8
This week’s post won’t involve many useful screenshots as most my time was spent 1) trying to get things to work 2) looking into how to calculate the IPD in pixels This post comes a …
Weeks 6&7
These two weeks, a lot of time was spent debugging and working on both photos and webcam (although photos will be focused on from now on). A lot of time was spent on getting to …
Week 5
This week turned out to be unexpectedly much slower for me due to some projects being due and a round of midterms. Overall, the goal was to pick out some pictures of human beings, provide …
Week 4
This week, I worked on a few different options as I was indecisive. I spent half my time trying to figure out whether I should make use of some open source face detection code that …
Week 3
This week, I installed PyCharm and attempted to install all the necessary packages to it (nimpy and cv2). I tried to learn how to run a file remotely through the interpreter and how to organize …
Week 2
This week, I had to make some adjustments to my goals for multiple reasons – first being that this was another one of my pretty heavy workload weeks with regards to classes. This shouldn’t be …
Getting started – 1st post
This will be my first of many weekly posts regarding my progress on the semester project I was assigned for independent study – IPD detection. Coming into the project I have minimal programming experience with …