New on the OpenCV blog, an OpenCV 5 development progress update from the core team. Recent work includes new samples, ONNX improvements, documentation improvements, HAL and G-API work, and a lot more.
Anyone hiring OpenCV developers here on the Fediverse? Any OpenCV devs looking for work? Reply in this thread, let's fill some open positions today. #hiring#OpenCV#OpenSource
OK, so I got this close 🤏🏾 to getting @videodreams posting again. It downloads images properly and assembles them into a webm video file. But it seems like Mastodon's updated something because now I'm getting the attached HTTP 422 error when trying to post the file.
Nice to know that the code still works, though! I'll have to come back and figure out how to play nice with Mastodon. #bots
After that, the last of the late great dragfyre bots to bring back from the dead would be @laughingman, which tbh is one of my favourites. The problem is, it uses #openCV to detect faces, and I can't run the newest versions of openCV on my potato compy. So that one's going to be considerably more difficult to resurrect. Maybe I'll wait 'til Easter. #bots
So many begging posts fly past me in the last couple of days, so here your quick reminder that #OpenCV is running a fundraiser to move to version 5 and get a significant amount of work done.
There is a ton of reasons to #donate to any of those projects. But many projects are starving for money and opencv is quite an important library. So consider donating once, a small amount, and show that you care :)
It's a very important time to show your support for open source computer vision and AI, so we can keep the future free for everyone and not locked up in private vaults at big companies.
I’m so tired of the capitalist argument that an open source project cannot be successful because it’s based on nonprofit or donations instead of vc funding and corporates.
Some people seem to actually believe in this narrative that Linux, Mozilla products and the Internet itself are all alive solely because of for-profit industries while forgetting that the actual people, inventors, universities and organisations do exist in this world. Also the contributing factors by companies do not nullify the brilliance of the original project. FFS, it is not all because of the money.
@rolle
I am not sure I would include Linux in it, given that kernel work is really a lot of corporate work.
#OpenCV I consider a better example. A lot of academia goes into it and helps to foster a full ecosystem that is dependend on it. Yes, there are plenty of sponsors like Intel, but in its core it has been driven by academics for a long time.
And there are plenty of other ubiquous libraries. Maybe even products like #QGIS #openssl sadly is too, being neglected by funding for too long.
For me this is an important library. In a summerschool a prof told me: "you have to love every pixel" and exactly this is what I used it for. Many might argue, but isn't AI the CV way to go.
Yes and no. I worked on small FLIR images and am trying to do some small scale projects with mcus right now. We do not have endless compute. And we have certain time constraints. So preparing images can speed up as well.
Looking at the #OpenCV 5 crowdfunder I am a bit sad.
I seriously do get that many cannot afford chipping in for important libraries. I do get that not everyone has 100 USD+ to spare and we are not big tech usually
Having seen demands of clear milestones and deliverables in the comments, I am a bit flabbergasted.
OpenCV did deliver. They delivered for a long time. They expanded into OpenCV University et al to acquire more funds
Do you know of a #OpenCV#community be it local or global, English, German or any other language? Kids doing great projects or adults dabbling into it for their weekend projects?
We would love to hear from you :)
There is an attempt to build a directory and help those communities gain visibility. After all the community is where the library is used and who needs what is great about OpenCV and where OpenCV lacks.
Like all open source it is a long trip and not a short sprint. So join us!
"Hello, everyone! We are working on creating content and bringing visibility to the OpenCV 5 crowdfunding campaign! This weekend, we will have a talk with Alessandro de Oliveira Faria, a Brazillian Computer Vision Engineer who has contributed to OpenCV. We want to bring his history and inspire the Brazilian community to join us in this campaign."
Thanks for organizing this Natalia et al!
@NormanDunbar
Interesting! I wrote my first program on a #TI82 graphing calculator sometime in the 1990s, so I've never gotten anywhere near "the bare metal" like some of y'all were doing in the 1980s, but I've still ended up with three #RaspberryPi boards, one #Arduino, and two #Luxonis#OpenCV kits, so I must have caught the hardware bug somewhere along the line.
Any recommendations for camera setups?
TKD #Poomsae or Karate katas.
Most likely distance to runner 6-8m, I would love lidar/stereo in some cases.
I need high quality for some #opencv stuff and some estimations.
Which ofc are not that great, but I have them handy.
I will need stable Tripods for competitions and need gear to store the data away.
I most likely will try to record complete class, and give the others their fottage.