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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
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Don't bother posting. It had been noticed by us and fixed already for next release.
Aww... and I had pretty pictures and everything
Awesome... DJ have you thought about a visual studio publish point and enabling the application to check for updates on start feature? This would allow updates to be pulled and installed at runtime.
Thanks for the updates !
@Tklass, thanks dude. It already does the check. You must have accidently closed it. Look under the Help men item and select "Check for latest update". And you can modify the checkbox so it checks each time you load ARC.
The camera gets more slow:(. Also I cant find the button to change the Camera Resolution .
@kurt the camera is much faster and smoother. The CPU usage is the same but with more features and high resolution video - also you can view realtime high resolution video at the highest framerate your video hardware supports
camera resolution is the highest your video hardware supports automatically now
Thats weird, because when I pass the camera through it it takes like 2 seconds to show on the computer, maybe is because I have like 42 open internet windows.
Haha, that might be it
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.