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Firmware Hack Allows Video Analysis On a Canon Camera

Posted by timothy on from the turn-your-family-green-with-envy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the University of Liege in Belgium have been able to perform real-time video analysis on a regular Canon digicam (video link) without any hardware modification. The results are shown directly on the digicam's screen. They use a hacked version of a popular open-source alternative firmware for Canon cameras: CHDK. This is a proof-of-concept that computer vision algorithms can now be embedded on regular Canon digicams with little effort (CHDK is coded in C). What other popular vision algorithms could be implemented? For what purpose?" You can get some idea about ViBe from this abstract at IEEE; basically, it allows background extraction in moving images.

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  1. Re:THEY ARE NOT CALLED "DIGICAMS". by sopssa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To add to the mix, everyone here calls it digi camera :-)

  2. Re:Fun idea by spun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Teenager or not, if their asses are 'juicy' I think there may be a medical or dietary problem involved.

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  3. Re:Fun idea by Stephen+Tennant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Precisely. My use of metaphor might be difficult from a technical standpoint, but it will make for a stimulating challenge to anyone willing to create a visual analysis back-end for ghetto booties, sugar apples, badonkadonks, whale tails, laffy taffy, and backyard cheddarstacks.

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  4. Re:Fun idea by ZosX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mmmmmmm......puss filled anal leakage

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