I worked with Elena and Luca on this week’s Computational Cameras assignment and as they both mentioned it’s a work in progress. We wanted to use the Axis IP camera installed in the ITP hallway. Using OpenCV we would detect blobs, take a picture and have it tweet to the itphallway twitter feed. We’ve managed to save frames in Eclipse and also tweet (using some code from Dan Shiffman’s email processing example and our twittermail address) but have not been able to get OpenCV working yet or to have frames saved and tweeted within the same applet. Of course, I’m inclined to anthropomorphize the camera and will build in a time elapsed function so that if the camera doesn’t detect any blobs for x amount of time it will initiate a series of lonely tweets: Where is everybody? Why is it so dark? I feel so alone… To be continued most likely for my midterm!
Here’s one of the photos captured from the IP camera:
