h1. *Ideas Page: OpenCV Google Summer of Code 2012*

h2. *OpenCV is accepted as an organization! Time to queue up for projects.*

!http://code.opencv.org/attachments/613/FineGrain.jpeg!

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":http://www.cvpr2012.org

General Information:

* "GSoC 2012 site":http://code.google.com/soc/

* "Timeline for GSoC 2012":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

** *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 [email protected]

*** -March 26: Application period starts

Times:

*  UTC to PDT (Pacific Daylight Time == Daylight savings time. In winter it's PST).

** "utc time converter":http://weatherarc.com/utc-time-conversion

h2. For students interested in applying

* March 17-25: Discuss projects below or other ideas with us [email protected]

* *To apply to us: (March 26 - April 6th*)

** Go to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012

** Click on "apply"

*** Please note that you +must+ apply to Google

** After the organizations load (takes some time), type in "OpenCV", click on what comes up and apply.

*** [[GSoCApplicationTemplate]] -- This is what we want to know about you

h3. Discuss ideas with us at [email protected]

h2. Project Idea summary. Discuss with us at [email protected]

*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

* *Vision Applications:*

** We'd like students to build working functionality. Some ideas:

*** Automatically generating comics: 

**** See http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-software-automatically-movie-comic.html

*** Image Collage -- use python to make it easy to put together a collage of images from a trip etc

**** Annotate the images

**** Do effects like comic life http://plasq.com/products/comiclife/win

*** Hand tracking with the kinect

*** Movie editor with effects. Simple, intuitive to use

*** Point cloud view using depth in OpenCV arrays

* *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

* *Tutorials:*

** Continue with "OpenCV Tutorials":http://opencv.itseez.com/doc/tutorials/tutorials.html

* *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

h2. Mentors

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 Anatoly Baksheev

 Researcher, Vision Algorithms on GPU

 Argus/Itseez

 [email protected]  

 Serge J. Belongie

 Professor Computer Science and Engineering 

 University of California, San Diego 

 [email protected]

  Alexander Bovyrin

  PhD, Senior Researcher

  Argus/Itseez founder

  NNU Lecturer

  [email protected]

 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

 [email protected]

 Victor Eruhimov

 OpenCV founding team/Senior Researcher

 Argus/Itseez founder

 NNU Lecturer

 [email protected]

 Adrian Kaehler

 Principle Engineer, Applied Minds

 Co-author of Learning OpenCV Book.

 [email protected]

 Peter Karasev

 PhD Student, MINERVA Research Group

 Georgia Tech

 [email protected]

 Kurt Konolige

 Founder, Industrial Perception Inc

 Consulting Professor, Stanford CS

 [email protected]

 Caroline Pantofaru 

 Researcher Scientist in perceiving people

 http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/people/caroline-pantofaru-research-scientist

 [email protected] 

 Vadim Pisarevsky

 OpenCV founding team/Czar

 [email protected]

 Vincent Rabaud

 Research Engineer/Perception, Willow Garage

 [email protected]

 Ethan Rublee

  Founder, Industrial Perception Inc

 Ported OpenCV to Android

 See Android vision apps under "Robot view" or "the vegan robot"

 [email protected]

h3.  Back up Mentors

 Mark Asbach

 Fraunhofer IAIS

 Schloss Birlinghoven

 Sankt Augustin, Germany

 http://mmprec.iais.fraunhofer.de/asbach.html

 [email protected]

 Nicolas Saunier, Ph.D.

 Assistant Professor

 Civil, Geological and Mining Department (CGM)

 École Polytechnique de Montréal

 http://nicolas.saunier.confins.net

 [email protected]

h2. OpenCV Org. Application to GSoC 2011

[[GSoC2012OpenCVApplication]]

h2. Previous Years 

* 2011 Ideas site http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/GSOC_OpenCV2011

** 2011 Application GSoC page is http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/GSoC2011OpenCVApplication

* 2010 Ideas site http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/GSOC_OpenCV2010

** 2010 Application page http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/ApplicationGSOC2010

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