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It doesn't look like a rigged demo http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409264n

This looks great. Most audio and image processing libraries are a pain and I always end up wrapping them in something like this. It is nice to see someone open source a well written wrapper.

Jan Erik is an outstanding guy. He has helped me through a couple of rough spots. The OpenCV python bindings for SIFT don't seem to work (or exist). The ones for ORB work really well. Here is an example: https://github.com/ingenuitas/SimpleCV/blob/master/SimpleCV/...

We're in the process of moving our outstanding tickets from SourceForge to github. The list of tickets is here: http://sourceforge.net/p/simplecv/tickets/

We will probably complete the move after the next release. If you are interested in helping I can suggest a lot of smaller projects. We always willing to take on outstanding short demos too.

I ticketed this up and I will get to it Monday. I should be able to ship it with SimpleCV 1.2. https://sourceforge.net/p/simplecv/tickets/180/

The short answer is yes this can be done. You can use the Haar cascade wavelet files that ship with OpenCV 2.3. I will see if I can toss those into SimpleCV.

I am one of the SimpleCV Developers. We are overjoyed at all this feedback. We have a few really exciting things coming up that we would like to share:

1) We will probably release the SimpleCV 1.2 super packs next week. There are a ton of sweet new features. We could really use some beta testers. Please let us know if you are interested.

2) We just signed a book deal with O'Reilly Media to make a SimpleCV guide. We are soliciting input from the community about what CV problems they need solved, or cool projects they would like us to do.

With respect to our business model, right now we are focused on quickly and cheaply delivering open-source machine vision solutions for manufacturing. If you have a manufacturing contact that has a machine vision problem and is looking for a solution we would love to talk to them. In the next month we will have a development scrum that will focus on our Seer product. Seer will the framework for deploying your computer vision projects in a cloud context. This means being able to remotely deploy and manage a vision system (i.e. CV as a service). Also along these lines we are actively looking for partners for the DARPA iFAB BAA that will be released soon (see: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id...). If you are going to submit a proposal for this contract we would love to talk to you.

Since we're open source we welcome and encourage community participation and feedback. If you have a cool project or a pony request shoot us a message via twitter (@Simple_CV or @IngenuitasInc) and we can chat and perhaps help you with your project.

Thanks! I try to keep things real in the documentation. Sometimes things are slow, especially with python. After years of working as a closed-source defense contractor nothing feels better than having someone looking at my code and agreeing with me that a) it sucks and b) at least it works.

Thanks!

This thread just gave me a great idea. I am going to add inline image download and upload to SimpleCV. E.g. img = Image("http://foo.com/stuff.jpg) img = img.dosomething() img.upload(src="imgur" apikey="ASDFASDFASDF") This will be fun. I just ticketed it up. Hopefully I will have it pushed to the repo this week.

This is a great tutorial. I have been working on an open source python library called SimpleCV that makes this trivially easy. Grabbing an image from a camera is one line of code. Applying the face detector in also a single line of code. Check it out here: http://simplecv.org/