Category: Background

Participating in EU Robotics Week!

November 28th, 2011
GuarddoG ( and me ;P ) will be participating in the EU Robotics Week with an event at Athens Univeristy of Economics and Business in the D21 room 15:00-19:00 in 2 December 2011 . There will be 3 speeches and everybody is welcome .. ! :)… more »

Skipping frames to improve cpu usage / power consumption

November 23rd, 2011
I Just added a frame skipper for when there are no changes on the frames and therefore computation of faces corners , RANSAC tracking and depth mapping has no meaning ( because the image remains almost 99% the same )I will have to add some cooldowns (… more »

New video demonstrating Lucas Kanade Optical Flow tracking and Disparity Mapping !

November 23rd, 2011
[video:youtube:hsOV7vTdyVM] more »

Linux Inside Magazine Interview : )

November 22nd, 2011
An interview about GuarddoG has just been published in the Greek magazine Linux Inside , issue 6 , they interview doesnt get into much detail but it is very nice to see my work in one of the few magazines I read :D more »

Adding Performance Statistics to GuarddoG

November 21st, 2011
As I begin to fully document the GuarddoG Project ( a git updated draft under heavy development can be found here ) I also have to document and compare performance results so that they can be used for other algorithms and projects. :) GnuPlot is an… more »

Fixed some cabling issues

November 14th, 2011
I just fixed ( it was about time ) some cabling issues that prevented guarddog from booting at its public appearance in AUEB today more »

Finally a proper lasercut plexiglass stereo rig !

November 14th, 2011
As the final body of guarddog is beginning to take shape I got the new guarddog "eyebrow" that is the mounting point for the two PS3 eye cameras ..As said in an older post the "schematics" for the laser holes are theese , with all the distances beein… more »