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Does your EZ-Robot need faster Face Tracking? High Resolution Realtime Video? Custom Haar Tracking? Updated Camera Control? Transparent Grid Lines? And more?
Okay! This is the last update of ARC for a few days, because I need to sleep. I don't know how I did it, but this has been a very productive week of releases. This release is a complete re-write of the camera control. You will notice an updated interface, new options and a new layout. The new layout is much easier to navigate and supports the new High Resolution Realtime Video display.
In the next while, I am working on a custom Haar Cascade Trainer built into ARC. This means you will be able to train objects to be recognized in ARC. Right now, you can use existing Haar Cascades definitions for tracking.
- New Control Commands (CameraViewProcessed, CameraViewRealtime)
- High Resolution Realtime Video
- Adjustable transparency on Grid Lines for Processed Video
- Custom Haar tracking
- Updated Camera Control Layout
- Camera Snapshot saves high resolution images
Okay! This is the last update of ARC for a few days, because I need to sleep. I don't know how I did it, but this has been a very productive week of releases. This release is a complete re-write of the camera control. You will notice an updated interface, new options and a new layout. The new layout is much easier to navigate and supports the new High Resolution Realtime Video display.
In the next while, I am working on a custom Haar Cascade Trainer built into ARC. This means you will be able to train objects to be recognized in ARC. Right now, you can use existing Haar Cascades definitions for tracking.
- New Control Commands (CameraViewProcessed, CameraViewRealtime)
- High Resolution Realtime Video
- Adjustable transparency on Grid Lines for Processed Video
- Custom Haar tracking
- Updated Camera Control Layout
- Camera Snapshot saves high resolution images
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I did notice a minor glitch after checking then un-checking the "Hide Settings". I'll toss that in the Bug forum.
Thanks for the updates !
camera resolution is the highest your video hardware supports automatically now
Check your taskmanager and look at the cpu usage - what does it say for ARC with the camera running. Keep in mind, the more tracking types you have selected the more cpu usage will be required. With the number of things ARC does, you do need a reasonably new computer. I do many demos on a AMD C-50 with Windows 7 Home Edition and 4 GB of ram - I feel that is the slowest processor anyone would use these days.
This latest video processer uses the hardware accelerator on your graphics card also. But that is only available in Windows 7... So if you're XP, that will be an issue.
One of my computers that I have used for ARC is an ASUS Aspire One with an Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6GHz and 1GB RAM. It was running XP, but because I wanted all the features of ARC, I shoe-horned in Windows 7 Home Prem on it's 8GB SSD, with a whole 387MB left over
However even with its limitations I have had no issues running my robot creations with video tracking (usually colour) & voice recognition (assuming I remember the commands I programmed :)). The built in camera is relativity low quality, so I did a face recognition test with an older build (one from all of two of three days ago :P) and then with this build. I can see an amazing improvement in this new build with camera quality, speed and face recognition... as in it now recognizes my face without me needing to get into kissing range of the cam
i meant the visual studio deployment approach, i was not referring to the update check within the app.
I can see why you probably implemented it this way because people have the option to update or not since they effectively download the update vs the visual studio but updating it just before runtime.
thanks
Just thought i would throw it out there
Its excellent now , I can't say how much it's improved . go for it , It rocks
Steve_C.
Is it still work?
Alex
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