h1. *Ideas Page for OpenCV Google Summer of Code 2015 (GSoC 2015)*

"We are an accepted organization in GSoC 2015!":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/opencv

*OpenCV 3D recognition and pose from last year.*

!3D_recog.jpg!

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h2. General Information:

* "GSoC 2015 site: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015

* Mailing list for OpenCV GSOC 2015: [email protected]

** Group site https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opencv-gsoc-2015

* "Timeline for GSoC 2015":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

** *Next important dates:*

*** -Feb 20 19:00 UTC: Organization Application Deadline.- *DONE!*

*** -Mar 02 19:00 UTC: List of accepted Organizations.- *We're in!*

*** Mar 16 16:00 UTC: Student Application period begins!

*** Mar 27 19:00 UTC: Student Application period ends!

*** Apr 13 Deadline for OpenCV to request # of slots.

*** Apr 15 Google publishes how many slots we get.

*** Apr 21 Try to eliminate duplication of students.

*** Apr 24 IRC for OpenCV to resolve all duplications.

*** Apr 27 19:00 UTC: Accepted students announced.

*** May 25 Let Coding begin!

*** Jun 26 19:00 UTC: Mid term evaluation begins.

*** Jul 03 19:00 UTC:  Mid term end.

*** Aug 21 19:00 UTC: Coding stop; Pull requests must be in; Mentors: final evaluation begins...

*** Aug 28 19:00 UTC: Final evaluation deadline; Students begin submitting code.

*** Sept 25 19:00 UTC: Deadline for Google Code submission

*** Oct 24-25: Mentor Summit!

* we'll create a video just like we did in the

** "OpenCV GSoC 2014 Movie":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUZA_KIIRA&feature=youtu.be

** "OpenCV GSoC 2013 Movie":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTtN4frMEA

*Times:*

*  UTC to PDT (California uses PST in the winter (from Nov 1st) and PDT in the summer (from March 8)).

** "utc time converter":http://www.timebie.com/std/gmt.php

*Resources:*

* "OpenCV Developers Site":http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki

* "OpenCV User's Site":http://opencv.org

* [[How_to_contribute|How to Contribute Code]]

* Source Code can be found at "GitHub":https://github.com/Itseez/opencv. 

** To get the source code, point your git client to @git://github.com/Itseez/opencv.git@. Here are [[Working_with_OpenCV_git_repository|instructions]].

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** The rest of the history plus matches between git commits and SVN revisions are stored at a separate "OpenCV Attic" repository: git://code.opencv.org/opencv_attic.git.

** Also OpenCV Extra was put to a separate repository: git://code.opencv.org/opencv_extra.git.

* [[OpenCV Development Process]]

** [[Meeting_notes|Developer meeting notes]]

h2. How you will be evaluated if you are an accepted student

* Student projects to be paid only if:

** *Midterm:*

*** You must generate a pull request

**** That builds

**** Has at least stubbed out functionality

**** With appropriate Doxygen documentation

**** Has at least stubbed out unit test

**** Has a stubbed out example of use that builds

** *End of summer:*

*** A full pull request

**** Full Doxygen documentation

**** A good unit test

**** Example of use code

*** Create a (short!) Movie (preferably on Youtube, but any movie) that demonstrates your code

**** We use this to create an overall summary. Past years:

***** "The 2014 Movie":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUZA_KIIRA&feature=youtu.be

***** "The 2013 Movie":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTtN4frMEA

h2. For computer vision professionals interested in mentoring

# Go to the "GSoC site":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 and sign up.

# Request to be a mentor for OpenCV there.

# We accept or reject you

# Students submit projects and you 

** find a project you want to mentor (several students might try for the same project)

** contact us about it through [email protected] so we can be sure there is not someone already handling that project

** contact the students to assess which one if any are capable of coding that up in a summer.

# We get a slot allocation from Google, the administrators then _"spend"_ the slots in order of priority

# Students must finally actually accept to do that project (some sign up for multiple organizations and then choose)

*If* you are accepted as a mentor *and* you find a suitable student *and* we give you a slot *and* the student signs up for it, +*then*+ you are a mentor. 

** It sounds harder than it is.

h2. For students interested in applying

* You *must* already know how to program well in C++

** Some projects may require Python or Matlab skills

* Discuss projects below or other ideas with us https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/opencv-gsoc-2015

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h1. 2015 Project Ideas:

*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* Contact us and/or discuss ideas at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/opencv-gsoc-2015

_These are not in order of priority_

*1 Google Cardboard*

* Do visual odometry, SLAM etc for Google Cardboard

*2 Projection mapping (Projected Augmented Reality)*

* Calibrate a camera to a projector

* Put out structured light to learn the 3D map of what's in front of the camera

* Project the camera image, suitably rotated and shifted onto the scene

* Unity or some other program to start transforming the scene for projection mapping

** See http://www.creativebloq.com/video/projection-mapping-912849 to get ideas of what you can do with this

*3 Update OpenCV file storage so that it's readable by Python in OpenCV (move to YAML 1.2 Edition 3)*

* Mentor Prasanna

* OpenCV C++ writes out its own YAML tags which makes it incompatible with it's own Python and with external python readers

* Speedup fs reading/writing, add JSON support, add base64 (+RLE) support for large amounts of numerical data

* References

** YAML http://www.yaml.org

** Problem statement: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11141336/filestorage-for-opencv-python-api

*4 Stereo correspondence improvements*

* More accurate and faster stereo correspondence (StereoBM/StereoSGBM) by using LBP/BRIEF/DAISY etc. per-pixel descriptors instead of sum-of-absolute-differences.

*5 Self-contained video codec(s)*

* There is draft version of self-contained motion jpeg encoder to be integrated to OpenCV.

* We will also need decoder, 12-bit jpeg support, multi-threaded encoder and decoder.

* There are some other codecs, like libvpx, which we can support and link right into highgui, without dependency from ffmpeg/libav.

*6 Deep learning*

* It would be cool if OpenCV could load and run deep networks trained with popular DNN packages like Caffe, Theano or Torch.

* GPU/OpenCL optimization and/or other optimizations (that can partly be contributed back to the upstream projects) are also encouraged.

*7 Better interactive camera calibration*

* Modern algorithms would allow us to recompute camera parameters after almost each frame, compute reprojection error, compute confidence intervals for the parameters.

* the partially occluded calibration patterns could be handled somehow to, especially if we want to estimate intrinsic parameters only.

* the application may show us the areas where the corner borders have been shown so that user can see how good are the data

*8 Create a much better calibration target, we will call it "Charuco*

* We know how to combine Aruco targets with checker boards to create a "super calibration" object

* It also can express ~1 billion distinct codes

* Implement  this for OpenCV

** "Aruco target finding description":http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/ava/node/26

** Great overview

*** "Automatic generation and detection of highly reliable fiducial markers under occlusion":http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/ava/sites/default/files/GarridoJurado2014.pdf

** A similar system to Arcuo: "AprilTag: A robust an dflexible visual fiducial system":http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5979561&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5979561

*9 Color Calibration and white balance* 

* With McBeth chart and with gray world algorithm (improve exisiting color constancy algorithms)

* Possibly collect deep learning way of doing this (needs large training set)

*10 Realtime image preprocessing algorithms (real time on mobile)*

* We and many other OpenCV users would definitely enjoy very fast denoising, color improvements, white balance etc. algorithms.

*11 Tracking improvements*

* TLD algorithm is implemented in OpenCV, but it needs improvements and optimizations.

* ASM/AAM can also be implemented, as well as the particle filter.

*12 PBM (part-based models) improvements*

* There is latentsvm package in opencv_contrib that needs to be improved (quality-wise and speed-wise).

* Adding training, even if it involves execution of external svmperf or other tool, is definitely appreciated too.

*13 Improving ICF/ACF + <some>Boost training and detection*

* In opencv_contrib there is initial version of the training application and detector based on integral channel features and boosting. Further improvements of this part would be really useful.

*14 numl+OpenCV, lua+OpenCV*

* there is emerging numl language, suitable for implementation of complex computationally-intensive algorithms. OpenCV bindings for this language would be really useful.

* the other language that is now used more often for ML and CV (thanks to Torch) is Lua; there are old bindings for a tiny part of OpenCV; could be useful to extend our autogenerated bindings to Lua.

*15 human interaction*

* gesture recognition

* human skeleton based on 2d or 3d 

*16 SfM*

* update libmv to OpenMVG and get the 3d viz from OpenCV

* Make the Structure from Motion Module coherent

*17 Quad Rotor Contrib*

* Apply much of the above into a quad rotor drone automatic tracking, mapping navigation etc module

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h1. Accepted Projects for OpenCV GSoC 2015:

OpenCV GSoC 2015 students, projects, mentors are below. *WHEN THEY ARE KNOWN*

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Student                 Project                                           Mentor(s)

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Project notes will be compiled "here":https://sites.google.com/a/opencv.org/opencv/gsoc-2015-project-notes .

h2. Mentors

*Actual signed up mentors*

* Alexander Mordvintsev	zzznah(+)gmail.com

* Sid Bao	ybao(+)magicleap.com

* Vincent Rabaud	vincent.rabaud(+)gmail.com

* Vadim Pisarevsky	vadim.pisarevsky(+)gmail.com

* Adrian Kaehler	therealadrian(+)gmail.com

* Terry Boult	tboult(+)vast.uccs.edu

* spmallick	spmallick(+)taaz.com

* Serge Belongie	sjb344(+)cornell.edu

* Stefano	s.fabri10(+)gmail.com

* Prasanna	pras.bits(+)gmail.com

* Pablo Alcantarilla	pablofdezalc(+)gmail.com

* Bence Magyar	mw.mzperx(+)gmail.com

* Manuele	manuele.tamburrano(+)gmail.com

* Grace Vesom	grace.vesom(+)gmail.com

* Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV)	garybradski(+)gmail.com

* Douglas Lee	dougabug(+)gmail.com

* Claudia Rapuano	c.rapuano(+)gmail.com

* Antonella Cascitelli	antonellacascitelli(+)gmail.com

* Anatoly Baksheev	anatoly.baksheev(+)itseez.com

* Alexander	alexander.shishkov(+)itseez.com

* Alexander Smorkalov	alexander.smorkalov(+)itseez.com

* Alexander Bovyrin	alexander.bovyrin(+)itseez.com

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 Anatoly Baksheev

 Researcher, Vision Algorithms on GPU

 Argus/Itseez

 [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]

 Antonella Cascitelli

 Grad student, University of Rome

 [email protected]

 Eric Christiansen

 PhD, UCSD

 [email protected]

 Stefano Fabri

 CRR Team leader, University of Rome

 [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]

 Vadim Pisarevsky

 OpenCV founding team/Czar

 [email protected]

 Manuele Tamburrano

 Grad Student, University of Rome

 [email protected]

 Vincent Rabaud

 Principle Engineer, Aldebaran Robotics

 [email protected]

  Claudia Rapuano

  Grad student, University of Rome

  [email protected]

 Grace Vesom

 Senior Software Engineer, Magic Leap

 -delete-grace.vesom@-delete_gmail.com

 Bence Magyar

 Pal Robotics

 [email protected]

 Pablo Alcantarilla

 Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.

 [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]

 Alexander Mordvintsev

 Software Engineer

 http://znah.net

 [email protected]

 Andrey Morozov

 Software Engineer

 Argus/Itseez

 [email protected] 

h2. OpenCV Org. Application to GSoC 2015

"OpenCV GSoC Application":http://code.opencv.org/projects/gsoc2013/wiki/GSoC2013OpenCVApplication

h2. Previous Years 

* 2014 "GSoC 2014 Ideas Page":http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki/GSoC_2014

** "The 2014 Movie":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUZA_KIIRA&feature=youtu.be

* 2013 "GSoC 2013 Ideas Page":http://code.opencv.org/projects/gsoc2013/wiki

** "The 2013 Movie":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTtN4frMEA

* 2012 Ideas site http://code.opencv.org/projects/gsoc2012/wiki/Wiki/

* 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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