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Camera and Image recognition

I recently watched a youtube video where a guy got a camera to recognize when a rubik's cube was held up to it, and it captured the 9 square color combination before snapping a picture of the cube and displaying the 3x3 grid on the screen of his computer. What kind of programming is this and where would I start reading to get into this sort of thing? specifically, controlling a camera, and getting it to pick out certain parts of an image and translate that data.

Solution

  • For starters, http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/structural_analysis_and_shape_descriptors.html

    and then http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~bouakaz/OpenCV-0.9.5/docs/ref/OpenCVRef_ImageProcessing.htm

    code samples http://code.google.com/p/blockhead/source/browse/trunk/Xcode/CubeFinder.cpp?r=8

    and http://blockhead.googlecode.com/svn-history/r13/trunk/CubeFinder.cpp

    OpenCV cvFindContours - how do I separate components of a contour