[PD] video tracking how advanced?

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

Once you've installed PiDiP a dozen times or so it becomes 
straightforward. Let me see if I can summarize my procedure:

1) Get source for PiDiP from Yves' site. The CVS is usually out of date.
2) Get ffmpeg source FROM YVES' SITE. Note you can don't need to install 
this source, you just need it to compile PiDiP.
3) Untar PiDiP and ffmpeg.
4) Configuration is tricky. You need to set --with-pd, --with-pdp and 
--with-ffmpeg to the directory where the base directories of their 
respective sources are. For me this is

PD_DIR = /home/ian/src/pure-data/pd
PDP_DIR = /home/ian/src/pure-data/externals/pdp
FFMPEG_SOURCE_DIR = /home/ian/src/pure-data/ffmpeg-cvs-2003-03-04

while pd is actually installed in /home/ian/pd.

5) make && make install.
6) cp pidip.pd_linux /path/to/pd/externs/ (make install doesn't do this)
7) edit ~/.pdrc

Again, I think the only thing PiDiP lacks in comparison to EW is the 
high-level functions, but all the pieces are there to build them. With 
some clever bg-subtraction, masking, convolution, blob trackers, and 
averaging you could find the centroids. Then it's just a question of 
building some system for recognizing the postures, perhaps with ANN.

The EW developers might be responsive to at least giving tips/ pointing 
toward resources on how to do this. I guess it just depends how much 
time you have ;)

-Ian

Malte Steiner wrote:
> 
>>
> Hi Chris,
> 
> on a conference in Leeds the makers of Eyesweb told me that they were 
> thinking of making a Linux version, maybe we should remind them :), it 
> was last year.
> Has become PiDiP easier to install or is it still a struggle? I prefer 
> GEM and tracking is there but basic, nothing in comparision to eyesweb.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Malte
> 


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