Month: December 2010
Computer Vision Experiment: Barcode Scanner
Some more experimenting with a cheap low quality webcam for extra challenge (Moar with less!). This time its a barcode scanner with no controlled light source. I wanted to scan barcodes with just the ambient lighting so I had to design an image filter that would amplify the picture’s contrast and reconstruct the dark and…
Computer Vision Experiment: 3D scanning on the cheap.
While working on my 3D editor back in 2010, I wrote a custom routine to automatically create a spherical mesh out of any set of arbitrary points in 3D space and got tired of testing it with semi-random points in space. So, a quick trip to the local Canadian Tire (a weird of mix of…
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