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t-oster / VisiCam

A Java application, that turns a webcam into a VisiCut compatible network camera with marker detection and perspective correction. Uses OpenCV through JavaCV
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Replace Round markers by Line-Detection of Laser-Bed edges #16

Open t-oster opened 9 years ago

t-oster commented 9 years ago

It is not very pleasant to add markers to the laser-bed. Since most laser-beds are rectangular, it may be possible to just run a line-detection algorithm on the image and find the outer-most and most-perpendicular rectangle and use that for the homography. This way nearly any Lasercutter can be used without preparation, just place a camera above it and maybe mark the areas where the algorithm shall search for the lines.

However, since I am not that up to date with OpenCV, and I do not have a VisiCam setup right now, I won't have time to develop it. So if anyone wants to improve VisiCam, this may be an idea.

mgmax commented 9 years ago

I don't think this will be very robust - even the round markers sometimes cause trouble under changing lighting conditions. But if it works and you can switch back to the round markers, why not?