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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

News: Tips and tricks: recursive show images

The "Mastering OpenCV with Practical Computer Vision Projects" book is done and published!
Also: including a screenshot of each project...
This will be the main issue.
... to see the screenshot from each project
...and also to find a way for any file to use
Let's take the book and source code:
$ git clone git://github.com/MasteringOpenCV/code.git
Go to the main folder: $ cd code and use this:
code]$ ls 
Chapter1_AndroidCartoonifier     Chapter7_HeadPoseEstimation
Chapter2_iPhoneAR                Chapter8_FaceRecognition
Chapter3_MarkerlessAR            Chapter9_FluidInteractionUsingKinect
Chapter4_StructureFromMotion     LICENSE.txt
Chapter5_NumberPlateRecognition  README.md
Chapter6_NonRigidFaceTracking
If we use the tree Linux command the result will be:
.
|-- Chapter1_AndroidCartoonifier
|   |-- Cartoonifier_Android
|   |   |-- AndroidManifest.xml
|   |   |-- jni
|   |   |   |-- Android.mk
|   |   |   |-- Application.mk
|   |   |   `-- jni_part.cpp
|   |   |-- project.properties
|   |   |-- res
|   |   |   |-- drawable
|   |   |   |   `-- icon.png
|   |   |   `-- values
|   |   |       `-- strings.xml
|   |   `-- src
|   |       `-- com
|   |           `-- Cartoonifier
|   |               |-- CartoonifierApp.java
|   |               |-- CartoonifierView.java
|   |               `-- CartoonifierViewBase.java
|   |-- Cartoonifier_Desktop
|   |   |-- CMakeLists.txt
|   |   |-- ImageUtils.h
|   |   |-- ImageUtils_0.7.cpp
|   |   |-- cartoon.cpp
|   |   |-- cartoon.h
|   |   `-- main_desktop.cpp
|   |-- README.txt
|   `-- screenshot.png
|-- Chapter2_iPhoneAR
We need something to find the absolute path and give that to gthumb to run it.
First, find the screenshot:
 code]$ ls -d  $PWD/**/*.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter1_AndroidCartoonifier/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter2_iPhoneAR/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter3_MarkerlessAR/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter4_StructureFromMotion/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter5_NumberPlateRecognition/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter6_NonRigidFaceTracking/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter7_HeadPoseEstimation/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter8_FaceRecognition/screenshot.png
/home/free-tutorials/code/Chapter9_FluidInteractionUsingKinect/screenshot.png
Now will run gthumb with all these images:
code]$ ls -d  $PWD/**/*.png | xargs gthumb 

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

ImageMagick resize with preserve aspect ratio.

ImageMagick is used to change images.
In this case, I will show how to resize images and preserve aspect ratio:
...with height: 600 pixels
convert  -resize x600 *.png
...with width: 600 pixels
convert  -resize 600x *.png
If you know more about ImageMagick send me one email.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Linus Torvalds - kernel 3.7 is now out.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org>

Subject: Linux 3.7

Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel

Date: 2012-12-11 03:59:50 GMT (9 hours and 45 minutes ago)

Whee. After an extra rc release, 3.7 is now out. After a few more trials at fixing things, in the end we ended up reverting the kswapd changes that caused problems. And with the extra rc, I had decided to risk doing the buffer.c cleanups that would otherwise have just been marked for stable during the next merge window, and had enough time to fix a few problems that people found there too. There's also a fix for a SCSI driver bug that was exposed by the last-minute workqueue fixes in rc8. Other than that, there's a few networking fixes, and some trivial fixes for sparc and MIPS. Anyway, it's been a somewhat drawn out release despite the 3.7 merge window having otherwise appeared pretty straightforward, and none of the rc's were all that big either. But we're done, and this means that the merge window will close on Christmas eve. Or rather, I'll probably close it a couple of days early. For obvious reasons. It's the main commercial holiday of the year, after all. So aim for winter solstice, and no later. Deal? And even then, I might be deep into the glögg. Linus

Read more here.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Simple convert images using ImageMagick - convert features

Can be done by using ImageMagick.This is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats over 100. Using ImageMagick let you resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
Install the software under Fedora:
# yum install  ImageMagick 
Convert an image from one format to another. In this case jpeg.
$ convert *.png *.jpg
$ mogrify -format png *.jpg  
Read more about this software here.