Can we run batch processing of videos?

While I was showing our first release to Michal, he said it might be a good thing to do if we can do batch processing of video files rather than one each time. To analyze data it is important to have data ready. It make sense to have more videos producing data quick than how interactively we process one video file.

Good though for rest of the term.

FingerTracker_v0.1 - First Release from Visual Team

Tester is someone who is not liked by teammates of a software project. Why ? :)


I was looking at the codes , docs , builds and bugging my teammates to change stuffs after each catch to make a clean release. I won't like someone bugging me. Neither my teammates.

I wrote some unit tests as well and I got one Test failed. Later we fixed that method. Felt unit tests helps but it is much frustrating to find out which test cases to write. It takes quite a big time as well.

Our release was 93MB and after zipped it was 29MB.

Eclipse is nice to make a Runnable jar and I could make it with in a minutes as there is a quick tool to do it with eclipse.

Here is the first release from our visual team.

At the end I must say "we have a really good team"

Tech Doc and Read Me

I wrote the ReadMe.txt and TechDoc.html. Fan is going to revise these files and write the UserDoc.html.

I used Microsoft Visio for Flow Chart drawing. Below is the our Visual Team's Finger Tracker Program's structure (Flow Diagram).

What I am doing?

I am going to help Fan with documentation and polishing for the first demo and would do testing trying to crush the program :))

Thoughts for flexible UI control Panel

Right now we are having settings in our control panel where user need to put the finger ID with what color to compare with and working with tracing 3 colors(or tree fingers). I am feeling there is a problem with this,

This one is not flexible and user need to think about what color to track with what finger.
I am thinking of making something like dynamic UI. Say when user open the video, we can have the first frame printed and let the users click on which finger s/he wants to track and Done.

How to do it?

Use mouseDown event and get the coordinate of the pixel of the finger tip, get the colors of that pixel and that is the finger tip we are interested with. Now trace all the other frames in stack.

This should be cool to do it. I am going to work on it later this term.

Video Session with HD cemera and proper settings

I could bring the video camera with tripod from Knight library. Me , Fan and Peter worked with the video session.




We set up the camera from above and covering the whole map with the full screen of the camera.




We marked the points of tripod legs and took some measurements. Note downed the resolutions of the Camera videos, file formats, etc.

Video File Uploading

We were guessing that we might need much bigger space than what assembla.com provides to upload our videos.

I found www.esnips.com This site gives 5GB free space.
Solved our problem ?