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Ideas Page: OpenCV Google Summer of Code 2012

OpenCV is accepted as an organization! Time to queue up for projects.


This is just a pretty picture from some recent vision research from contributors to OpenCV. To be published at CVPR 2012.
From: B. Yao, G. Bradski, L. Fei-Fei, A Codebook-Free and Annotation-Free Approach for Fine-Grained Image Categorization to be published in CVPR 2012

General Information:
  • GSoC 2012 site
  • Timeline for GSoC 2012
    • Next important dates:
      • March 9th: Organization Application deadline.
      • March 16th: Announcement of GSoC Mentoring Orgs. (whether we're in or out) We're in!
      • March 17-25: POTENTIAL INTERNS: Discuss project ideas with us
      • March 26: Application period starts
      • April 7-20th Decision period on which projects and students. NO FINAL DECISIONS CAN BE MADE DURING THIS PERIOD
      • April 20th 12-1PST Dedup meeting
      • April 23rd Final project decisions are made
Times:
  • UTC to PDT (Pacific Daylight Time == Daylight savings time. In winter it's PST).

For students interested in applying

Discuss ideas with us at

Project Idea summary. Discuss with us at

Students may propose their own projects (give us a clear summary and why you can do this project). However below are some of our priorities for this year

These are not in order of priority except for the first 2

  • Mobile vision app development:
    • Vision apps on phone and tablet. We want a very clear "hello world" type of example to make it easier for the rest to start developing mobile vision applications. People can apply for:
      • iOS (iPhone) examples
      • Android example
  • Computational Photography
    • Help support the growth of mobile cameras on tablets and phones. Fun stuff and important
      • Image stabilization,
      • noise estimation and reduction,
      • super resolution,
      • tilt-shift images and movies,
      • multi-focal point images,
      • high dynamic range images by composition with different shutter times
  • OpenCL Optmization:
    • We have contributors already, get one or more of them to be GSoC students
  • Mech Turk Interface
    • Easily label images for train test in OpenCV
  • 1D and 2D Barcode readers:
    • We have a basic datamatrix reader. Expand to other kinds of barcodes (1D, other 2D).
  • Natural barcodes:
    • OpenCV can read calibration patterns. Calibrate a camera, rectify it's output. Put a picture next to a calibration pattern in a scene. Find 2D interest points with features2D. Measure them in the image using the calibration pattern. Use the pattern of interest points and their measures to turn the picture into a calibration pattern/barcode so that the computer recognizes the picture and knows where it is in relation to the iamge.
      • Stretch goal, embeded and retrieve watermarks in the image.
  • Python examples:
    • We're finding the python interface extremely useful and productive. It needs a lot more examples
  • Inverted index:
    • Help create an inverted index of functionality to functions. That is, say, edge detection would list Sobel, Scharr, Canny etc.
  • Train Classifiers:
    • OpenCV has many classifiers. Train them carefully on useful objects (faces, people, cars, bikes, plates, cups, bowls etc) and we'll allow others to use those trained categories.
  • Structure from Motion (SfM):
    • Help adapt libmv for OpenCV.
  • Course-ware:
    • We want to start offering vision courses using OpenCV.
      • If you are expert in a topic (say it's your area of graduate research, or you've just finished a project or course in a particular topic and can explain it well)
      • Write up the topic, the math and then develop a step by step example of it using OpenCV.
  • Generic numerical optimization module:
    • We want to have the package of general purpose optimization methods that can be easily used in computer vision algorithms (ex. downhill simplex method, annealing particle filter).
    • This will require a mathematically inclined student and/or one who has taken course work in the area obviously

Mentors

In the below, get rid of the ''-delete-'' to make the emails work.

Anatoly Baksheev
 Researcher, Vision Algorithms on GPU
 Argus/Itseez
 
Serge J. Belongie
 Professor Computer Science and Engineering 
 University of California, San Diego 
 
Alexander Bovyrin
  PhD, Senior Researcher
  Argus/Itseez founder
  NNU Lecturer
  
Gary Bradski
 Founder, Industrial Perception Inc.
 Consulting Prof. Stanford U.
 OpenCV Founder, Technical Content Owner, GSoC Admin
 Co-author of Learning OpenCV Book
 http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/people/gary-bradski-senior-researcher
 
Victor Eruhimov
 OpenCV founding team/Senior Researcher
 Argus/Itseez founder
 NNU Lecturer
 
Adrian Kaehler
 Principle Engineer, Applied Minds
 Co-author of Learning OpenCV Book.
 
Peter Karasev
 PhD Student, MINERVA Research Group
 Georgia Tech
 
Kurt Konolige
 Founder, Industrial Perception Inc
 Consulting Professor, Stanford CS
 
Caroline Pantofaru 
 Researcher Scientist in perceiving people
 http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/people/caroline-pantofaru-research-scientist
 
Vadim Pisarevsky
 OpenCV founding team/Czar
 
Vincent Rabaud
 Research Engineer/Perception, Willow Garage
 
Ethan Rublee
  Founder, Industrial Perception Inc
 Ported OpenCV to Android
 See Android vision apps under "Robot view" or "the vegan robot"

Back up Mentors

Mark Asbach
 Fraunhofer IAIS
 Schloss Birlinghoven
 Sankt Augustin, Germany
 http://mmprec.iais.fraunhofer.de/asbach.html
 
Nicolas Saunier, Ph.D.
 Assistant Professor
 Civil, Geological and Mining Department (CGM)
 École Polytechnique de Montréal
 http://nicolas.saunier.confins.net

OpenCV Org. Application to GSoC 2011

GSoC2012OpenCVApplication

Previous Years

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