I recently read this comparison of four vision libraries: OpenCV, VXL, LTI and OpenCV with IPP. It was in the book Learning Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library, authored by the creators of OpenCV themselves. For those who aren’t familiar with these libraries, here’s a brief introduction. VXL VXL stands for Vision something [...]

And right now is a time for you to become a part of it! The people at The Corpora are deciding what colours would look great on their robot! Looking at all the success of open source software (Blender, Ubuntu, OpenOffice, etc) the people at The Corpora have decided to make an open source robot. [...]

MIT’s Media lab has been working on a robot that can turn your desk into a fully interactive table! It’s called LuminAR and it uses gestures to figure out what the user wants to do. The system is completely self-contained: a miniature projector and a camera. This unit can be connected to a standard bulb [...]