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Re: Robotic Vision (was: Video image analisys)
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:12:26 GMT
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James C. Jones <jonesj5@ocps.k12.fl.us%Spamcake%>
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I have seen this program (NIH) at a workshop, and it was pretty incredible.
I checked on the PC version (Scion makes this) and it is very similar.  It
says that it can measure (distances?)  Could this be used as "vision" for a
robot?  Could this be used to "tell" a robot where it is?

Lots of questions, and fairly excited about the future!



> Marco:
>        You are correct that Halcon is a commercial offering. I understand
> that it is very highly regarded. One of the Premier offerings in the arena
> of Machine Vision is NIH Image, which is(or was) in the public domain. You
> can find it at:
> 
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/Default.html
> 
> My company sells a Mac Based Machine Vision product called Image Analyst
> and we've often been asked, why should I buy your product when I can get
> most of its capabilities for free in NIH Image. (You didn't hear that from
> me, though).
> 
> --joel
> 
> You wrote.
> 
> > After checking Pong Suvan's apps/lib (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/psksvp/),
> > I checked HALCON 5.2 (http://www.mvtec.com/), as was my intention.
> > 
> > HALCON looks like a very powerfull, well documented, well done and easy to
> > use (through HDeveloper and/or the COM version) software package.
> > 
> > Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it has two disadvantages:
> > 
> > 1) It looks like a *commercial* oriented package, well beyond my home Lego
> > robotic vision project. :(
> > 
> > 2) It doesn't support general Video for Windows video cards/frame grabbers,
> > only specific models of frame grabbers.
> > 
> > So, I'll keep searching for a while and if I can't find any good
> > alternative, I'll stick to freeware Pong Suvan's good solution.
> > 
> > Any suggestions, links, etc.. on this subject are welcome to help me in
> > this project.
> > 
> > thxs :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joel Katz, Principal Engineer  --- (603)-577-5895
> Acuity Imaging, 9 Townsend West, Nashua, NH 03063 --- (603)-577-5965 (FAX)
> visit our Web Site at     >>> www.acuityimaging.com <<<
> 
> 

James C. Jones
Liberty Middle School
3405 S. Chickasaw Trail
Orlando, FL  32829
Jonesj5@ocps.k12.fl.us
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  Re: Robotic Vision (was: Video image analisys)
 
James: (...) Absolutely, something like NIH can be used either for determining where your robot is in the world (eg. with a fixed camera looking down at your robot), or telling where things are relative to your robot with a robot mounted camera. (...) (27 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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