The End: Google Summer of Code 2012

This is the end, beautiful friend -The End by The Doors Katherine Scott, Anthony Oliver, Victor and Vijay, it has been a pleasure working with you guys. So after exactly three months, Google Summer of Code 2012 has come to … Continue reading

Face Tracking with CAMShift using OpenCV/SimpleCV

CAMShift stands for Continuously Adaptive Mean Shift. It is the basis for the face-tracking algorithm in OpenCV. It combines the basic Mean Shift algorithm with an adaptive region-sizing step. The kernel is a simple step function applied to a skin-probability … Continue reading

Configuring Boost::Python and Hello Boost

In my recent blog posts, I have mentioned that python is quite slow and I need to find an option to increase run-time speed of my python port of OpenTLD. I need to extend Python with C++ and hence I … Continue reading

Tracking in OpenTLD aka Predator

As my Google Summer of Code 2012 project, I have to port OpenTLD to python using OpenCV and SimpleCV. OpenTLD a.k.a. Predator was first made by Zdenek Kalal in MATLAB. OpenTLD. It is one of the most reliable algorithms to … Continue reading