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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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Thanks, Im using an Asus, with the Core I5 and 6 GB of ram with Windows 7
@Kurt You are probably not running into processing power issues... but Windows can have a million and one glitches that will surface on one particular program or other... usually the one you want to work on the most
Check for up to date camera drivers. You could also try uninstalling ARC and doing a clean install. Perhaps even test multiple cameras to see if it is the camera or specific driver issue. And also you can try to create a 2nd user profile and quickly test in that... if the issue is resolved then minor profile corruption is usually the cause.
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
Thankfully I have SD cards for data storage.
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
) 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
OK, I will test that, thanks
Hi DJ,
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
Oh I see. I've never been fond of the visual studio publish and update
I think the current way is more personalized
Oh this is an awesome release, I need to make time to finish my Wall-E build
. Never too happy with face tracking, now i get a chance to try again....thanks man!
HI Louis
Its excellent now , I can't say how much it's improved . go for it , It rocks
Steve_C.
Hi!
Is it still work?
Alex irobotroomba.org