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Re: Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

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Post by mrleinad »

From his webpage at Surrey: "We have received hundreds of emails asking for the source code ranging from practitioners, students, researchers up to top companies. The range of proposed projects is exciting and it shows that TLD is ready to push the current technology forward. This shows that we have created something "bigger" than originally expected and therefore we are going to postpone the release of our source code until announced otherwise. Thank you for understanding."

Also, the message where he states the source code is under GPL 2.0 dissapeared. Seems that he chose to leave Richard Stallman empty handed and go to the dark side.

Re: Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

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Post by giardini »

It must be shown what to track. That is, you (or some other external system) define the "object" to be tracked by clicking on a bounding box.

A good addition would be an algorithm that automatically delineated "objects" in the visual field, then passed them to Predator.

Which raises another question: how many "objects" can Predator simultaneously track (with given horsepower)?

Re: Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

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Post by Tycho »

Tycho wrote: post #57

Uhhh... 'Predator?' What's his next project, SkyNet Resource Planning? This seems like an April fools to me. I mean I'm sure he's done work in the area... but the article is dated April 1 and the previous literature didn't mention 'Predator.' I could be wrong, but it seems too advanced, and scary.

So nobody else found it suspicious that the source code was promised but not actually available. And now not even promised.

Re: Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

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Post by Bystander »

StavrosK wrote: post #35
newhouseb wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spot on. There's a lot of current work going on that effectively splits computer vision into multiple parallel tasks for better results but uses previously well known techniques (PTAM is another good example). As an aside, I read through the paper and it doesn't look like this could track, say, your index finger separately from other fingers if, for a moment, your hand was occluded. This pretty much bars using this e…

I don't understand why everyone seems to have such a hardon for Minority Report-style systems. Gorilla arm pretty much rules that out from the start, and a tablet is more natural anyway. A trackpad with a separate screen would be optimal (so you don't have to look at your hands).

Tony Stark, Iron Man: JARVIS --- that was his greatest invention - without JARVIS he couldn't have made his later generation suits.

Re: Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

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Post by endian »

mrleinad wrote: post #71

From his webpage at Surrey: "We have received hundreds of emails asking for the source code ranging from practitioners, students, researchers up to top companies. The range of proposed projects is exciting and it shows that TLD is ready to push the current technology forward. This shows that we have created something "bigger" than originally expected and therefore we are going to postpone the release of our source co…

Did anybody get a GPLv2'd copy?

Re: Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

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Post by reemrevnivek »

mrleinad wrote: post #5
pyrhho wrote: post #2

Bah! I was hoping to download the source (from here: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html ) and check out his algorithm, but he requires you to email him with his project. If anyone knows how the algorithm works, or where it is described in detail, I'd love to read that! Absolutely amazing stuff!

What if you just... email him and ask for it?

Well, you might join a plethora of other HN readers who also email him asking for a copy, and he might just remove the GPLv2 notice and "postpone the release of [the] source code until announced otherwise"
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