Wed, 14 Oct 2009
New tool for SRV-1 Blackfin color blob searches

There is a new C library for AVR processors called "WebbotLib" that has added support for the SRV-1 Blackfin camera as an alternative to CMUcam. In the process of adding the SRV-1 support, the developer realized that we had no good tools for analyzing and selecting colors used for blob searches, so he wrote a new Java-based console, as described here.





This console is particularly useful for identifying colors and color bin ranges that will be used in blob searches. As seen above, I worked out a color range for the "red" of a spool of wire, and the actual blob outlines are displayed. The console is designed to work with serial rather than network interfaces, as this is the typical configuration for the SRV-1 Blackfin camera when connecting to an AVR-class processor.

Note that WebbotLib is an open source project - sourceforge.net/projects/webbotavrclib

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