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2014 OpenCV Meeting notes for 2014 year

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2013-01-14

Agenda

  • GSoC pre-pre-pre planning …
  • Website
  • Positions
  • Intel

Minutes

  • GSoC pre-planning
    • We looked at who performed, who didn’t and why
      • Some geographies will now require a programming test
      • We will in general favor programming over vision. Given the short span of time, a student has to hit the ground running and it’s turned out that programming trumps vision knowledge. However, getting both is the ideal.
  • We are updating the website. It’s a tad dry. Vincent on this.
  • Positions (send bios to Vincent)
    • Gary — CEO
    • Vincent — Treasurer
    • Grace — Director of Development
    • Vadim — Chief architecture
    • Achin — Contact him. Role
  • Grace has been dealing with Intel to get our payments straightened out
    • We need to get more open, less SoW funding from them if possible.
    • Contacts with other companies and DARPA in progress

Action Items

Gary

  • Look into contacts with Caffe http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org
  • Look into UC Berkeley grant
  • Get bios

Vincent

  • Website

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Grace

  • Intel
  • Berkeley
  • Bio

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2013-01-28

Agenda

  • GSoC 2014, Feb 3 – 14 Org applications!

Minutes

  • Need to figure out themes
    • http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
  • Code into OpenCV Contrib instead of main. Then 3rd party such as a linear algebra
  • Code from Pieter Dollar segmentation
    • Matlab
      • http://vision.ucsd.edu/~pdollar/toolbox/doc/
    • http://vision.ucsd.edu/~pdollar/files/papers/DollarICCV13edges.pdf
    • http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/389109f6-b4e8-404c-84bf-239f7cbf4e3d/default.aspx
  • Sparse Matices
  • Segmentation (Dollar)
  • Pedestrian detection, human detection
    • Face detection — advance the state
      • In opencv extra, large data set 24×24 (several 1000 faces)
      • http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/5062-alien-facehugger-v-predator-face-tracking-hots-up.html
      • http://www.micc.unifi.it/pernici/
    • Soft cascade (half cascade in OpenCV)
      • Needs to be improve
    • Fastest pedestrian detection in the west
      • training, new features, detection
      • interframe interpolation and smoothing
      • outlier supression
  • DTAM
  • Tracking — predator (tracking, detection + learning)
    • Was pretty rudimentary
      • Draw box, resize
      • Box distortion
      • Look for candidates
  • solvePnP update
    • http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~joel/index.php?page=software
  • Optical flow
    • State of art http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/visi/2014/00000106/00000002/00000644
    • Prepare testing framework for quality
      • Have frameworks for features and stereo already
  • Improve Matlab wrappers from last year
  • 3D —
  • livmv finally integrated

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  • LSD
  • Python
  • computational photography
  • Matlab
  • Matas text detection (can detect road signs etc)

Action Items

Gary

  • Set up the website for 2014. Use OpenCVGSoC13
  • Contribute ideas

Vincent

  • Contribute ideas

Vadim

  • Contribute ideas

Grace

  • Contribute ideas

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2013-02-11

Agenda

  • GSoC we are applied, we find out Feb 24th
    • Mentors
    • Ideas https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/wiki/GSoC_2014
  • Toyota
  • CVPR

Minutes

  • Mentors
    • Add alexander shishkov
    • Add Stefano Fabri and his students
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  • CVPR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iEjpar0fO_BYwnQoSpXFJzqcT11Q1KhDblu8pV5G87g/edit
    • http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr14/tutorials.php
    • Start prep
    • Who goes
    • Tutorials ideas
      • Tilt shift, full process to pull request
      • ML: Linemod, softcascades, random forests/extremely
      • OCR app, as a web app
  • Need a coding test for students in GSoC. Simple one

Action Items

Gary

  • Transfer Stefano’s GSoC ideas across and his students
  • Write Ethan about

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2014-02-18

Agenda

  • GSoC 2014
  • Foundations website changed

Minutes

  • GSoC 2014
    • Our ideas page
      • https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/wiki/GSoC_2014
    • Most projects should be done in OpenCV contrib. From there we can migrate top stuff to core
      • In 3.0, we are trying to simplify core and put other things in contrib
      • Sparse matrices — basic operations can’t do with them. Right now, they are just storage structures. They aren’t efficient for operations. Dense row or Dense column format for multiplication for example.
      • Bundle adjustment would be good for the core
    • Guide for making contribution
      • https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/wiki/How_to_contribute
    • Docs, unit test, example, youtube videos.
    • Good to just have projects generating example and more docs of existing code such as livmv
    • Visualization: http://web.mit.edu/vondrick/ihog/
  • Mentors
    • 2 more added to Wiki. 17 mentors with 2 backups
  • Adding an object to describe a camera. But it’s hard because of
    • Single camera
    • Stereo
    • RGBD
  • Foundation’s website changed
    • http://vrabaud.github.io/foundation_site/
  • Need ongoing funding for pull requests and admin functions

Action Items

Gary

  • Write up Blog for GSoC “Good mentor/student story” Founded a company
  • Funding: high school bring down. Intel. Google. Samsung. Buidu

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2014-03-11

Agenda

  • GSoC

Minutes

  • Go through list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opencv-gsoc-2014
    • Email to mentors to sign up
    • Email Students to get applications in http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
  • Really want
    • http://www.robesafe.com/personal/pablo.alcantarilla/kaze.html
    • 3D
      • normals, features …

Action Items

Gary

  • email to mentors

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Gary

  • Email to mentors “Please get on, choose projects …”

Vincent

  • Email to students “Please officially apply”

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2014-03-18

Agenda

  • GSoC
  • Vadim back from mysterious “holiday” in the former Ukraine areas
  • Grace still there on Vacation
  • Payment received from …

Minutes

  • GSoC. Some of note
    • aKaze (features 2D)
    • new PNP
    • Python tutorial
    • Computational photography → image decomposition
    • Improve pictorial images. Felsenshwalb pictorial image, Deva Ramanam’s method
    • P. Dollar
    • Pedestrian detection
    • Predator
    • Anything relevant to person detection and tacking
  • 3D stuff
    • Fast normals, plane finder OpenCV extra
    • 3D features or primitives
  • Improve line mod in OpenCV
  • Libmv
  • Caffe
  • Money is in from youknowwho. Can pay our OpenCV summer of code guy or his sister

Action Items

Gary

  • Joining in deep learning, CNN. Contact them
  • Update ideas page

Vincent

  • Final call for GSoC to Facebook
  • Find out about paying our private OpenCV summer of code guy

Vadim

  • Last reminder to the list

Grace

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Gary

  • Email to mentors “Please get on, choose projects …”

Vincent

  • Email to students “Please officially apply”

Vadim

  • First reminder to get in projects to mail list
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2014-03-25

Agenda

  • GSoC
  • … payment is in. Need to pay Itseez

Minutes

Only 2 items:

  • Mentors have to sign up for OpenCV https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
  • Interim period all mentors go to https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/list/org/google/gsoc2014 and rate the proposals

Action Items

All

  • Send out messages to mentors to sign up, and rank proposals

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2014-04-08

Agenda

  • GSoC
  • OpenCV mini-challenges

Minutes

GSOC

  • Priority to students who performed well in previous years
  • Soft cascades patented, need to use close variant
    • Boosting chain, better
  • aKaze
  • Scene text detection Louise Gormez
  • We will have a special mentor this meeting to do student selection.

OpenCV Mini-Challenges

  • Funding to support interaction
  • Choose features/goal/classifiers to work on
  • Prize money

Action Items

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2014-04-22

OpenCV GSoC 2014 students, projects, mentors:

Student                 Project                                           Mentor(s)
Lluis Gomez             Improve Scene Text Detection module in OpenCV     Stefano Fabri, Vadim Pisarevsky
Abid Rahman             Extend of OpenCV-Python Bindings and Tutorials    Vadim Pisarevsky
Fedor Morozov	       Local feature descriptors                         Pablo Alcantarilla
Siddharth Kherada       Computational Photography: Image Decomp  Color    spmallick
Daniel Angelov	      Custom Calibration Pattern                        Sid Bao
Vitaly Lyudvichenko     New edge-aware filters for OpenCV	             Alexander Mordvintsev
Alex Leontiev 	      Learning based trackers 	                      Gary Bradski
Tolga Bridle            Rec & Pose Est of 3D Objects via 3D Features	  Bence Magyar
Francesco Puja          SALIENCY IMPROVEMENTS FOR TRACKING                Antonella Cascitelli
edgarriba               Real Time Pose Est Tutorial and DLS impl.         Alexander Shishkov
Yuri Gitman	         P. Dollar segmentation algorithm                  Alexander Shishkov
Vlad Shakhuro	       Fastest Pedestrian Detector in the West           Alexander Bovyrin
biagio	              Geometrical-primitives based localization system  Manuele Tamburrano
Tomasz Pietruszka	   Optical Flow Estimation – state-of-the-art        Prasanna Krishnasamy
Paul Foster	         Dense Tracking and Mapping (DTAM) for OpenCV      Vincent Rabaud
  • Bill DARPA
  • Help set up contests
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2014-05-06

Agenda

  • GSoC
  • CVPR
  • OpenCV 3.0
  • Kickstarter

Minutes

  • GSoC
    • Some students already moving
  • CVPR
    • need to register
    • Vadim can’t attend
      • Will deliver slides
    • Need to look for extra support
  • OpenCV 3.0
    • Beta by CVPR
    • Sept final thing
  • Kickstarter
    • Simple video
    • Shave our heads until we make our goal

Action Items

  • Mentor email
    • all in touch. all confirm
  • Set up for CVPR workshop

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2014-05-13

Agenda

  • Who is going to the mentor summit?
    • My email https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/145f210b78e5342f
  • CVPR workshop
    • Wrote Cat
  • Go over challenge file
    • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4UgujoQOxIAX25ZbUgtTUhZSVgxSTlKV3JSUlBCTDBKNnVn/edit?usp=sharing

Minutes

  • Mentor summit
    • A Shishkov
    • Gary
  • CVPR
    • Contests
    • Most want to implement conference vote
    • Put up workshop page on wiki
    • Get schwag
    • Fill in high level outline slides of workshop.
  • Coding starts May 19
  • We received PO from Google

Action Items

Gary

  • Mentor and Student coding start
  • Set up common report docs
  • Videos set up
  • Start wiki page for coding

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2014-08-26

Agenda

After a long hiatus for summer vacations, we’re back

  • Functional Programming
  • Machine learning
  • OpenCV Contest
  • GSoC 2014

Minutes

  • Functional Programming
    • We will look into working with Kunle Olukotun’s Pervasive Parallel Computing group to begin exploring a functional coding of OpenCV/Vision to enable long term optimization and keeping up with new types of hardware
    • Vadim is developing a functional language taken from others that specializes in array comprehension
  • Machine learning
    • The machine learning side of OpenCV is a bit dated/stale
    • Vadim has recoded much of it (not some of the boosting) and this will begin to show up in 3.0
    • We are also going to work on taking learned deep learning architectures expressed as XML files and compiling them to OpenCL for optimal runtime performance.
  • OpenCV Contest
    • We now have a full time programer, Dimitry to support the OpenCV contest.
    • He is working on a standard way to access image datasets
      • We will promote this way/format to others so that datasets may have more uniform access in the future
      • Basically code or translate via script the data to an XML format and we’ll provide standard reader/writers from there
  • GSoC 2014
    • We need to collect all the student videos
    • Gary needs to write the blog
    • Finalize on the mentor summit

Action Items

Gary

  • Finalize mentor summit
  • Write GSoC blog
  • Contact Kunle
  • Contact Silvio
  • Contact Fei-Fei
  • Transfer my BMVC poster etc to Grace

Vincent

  • Edit videos

Vadim

  • Send links to videos he knows about

Grace

  • Assemble videos
  • Present at BMVC

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2014-09-02

Agenda

  • GSoC analysis
  • Functional coding

Minutes

  • OpenCV GSoC 2014
    • Most successful summer ever: 15 students resulting in 14 pull requests
      • A pull request this year includes documentation and videos
    • Gary, Vadim will write up what was accomplished for the Google Summer of Code blog
    • Vincent will edit the contributed videos into a retrospective
    • Summit attendees
      • Gary
      • Alexander
  • Functional coding
    • This effort is to improve the code base of OpenCV so that:
      • There will be one code source only
      • The code, once compiled, tends to be much more robust against bugs, corner cases
      • Functional programs are much easier for compilers to optimize
        • To C++, to Python
        • To OpenCL
        • And to embedded architectures which are proliferating and hard to keep up with. This way, the manufacturer can make sure the compiler will optimize code to their own architecture.
    • Vadim will start work on this October 15

Action Items

Gary

  • Write GSoC 2014 blog entry

Vincent

  • Edit the videos from the students

Vadim

  • Help bring out the utility of each GSoC entry

Grace

  • Get videos to Vadim
  • Invoice to Berkeley for work on coding contest
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2014-09-09

Agenda

  • OpenCV Challenge
  • GSoC Video
  • OpenCV 3.0 for ROS

Minutes

  • OpenCV Challenge
    • Data set readers prepared
    • Todos
      • Establish approximate state of the art thesholds
      • Update https://docs.google.com/a/magicleap.com/document/d/1aCKmUpwpDxozC7cmIcokKRqQdcA9cckXTb1G8WOLYmI/edit#
      • By Friday, get the document ready
      • Announce the contest by Monday
    • Contestants must meet or exceed, self reported
    • Among the top 5 (by our jury decision), we will verify their code and announce the winners
    • Those who submit accepted OpenCV pull requests, will get large allocated amount, otherwise they’ll get $100
  • Vincent is working on the GSoC 2014 Video (14/15 resulted in accepted pull requests), but it will not be ready this week
  • ROS is being updated to use OpenCV 3.0!

Action Items

Gary

  • Figure out state of the art

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2014-09-18

Agenda

  • OpenCV Challenge
  • GSoC Video

Minutes

  • 2.4.10 : out this week
  • opencv tested on ARM. Some NEON optimizations
  • 2.x: support for Java (better: smart pointers are handled)

Action Items

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Vincent

  • DARPA announcement
  • Contact Qualcomm

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2014-09-23

Agenda

  • GSoC
  • Contest: Prepare state of the art.
    • 5 categories for challenge
    • Select such for minimum support needs
      • SLAM 1.3%

Minutes

  • GSoC
    • Alexander coming to the mentor summit
    • Need to finalize invoice to Google
  • Contest
    • Focus on gestures, 3D data
    • Gary to send list
    • Dimitry to come up with graphics simulated examples
    • https://docs.google.com/a/magicleap.com/document/d/1aCKmUpwpDxozC7cmIcokKRqQdcA9cckXTb1G8WOLYmI/edit#

Proposed gestures list:

  • Thumbs up, down, right, left
  • “L” facing away
  • “L” facing towards
  • Fingers up facing away: 1, 2, 3, 4 (separated)
  • Fingers up facing towards: 1, 2, 3, 4 (separated)
  • Open palm away (fingers separated)
  • Open palm towards (fingers separated)
  • Open palm away (fingers lined up)
  • Open palm towards (fingers lined up)
  • Open palm held out (fingers separated)
  • Open palm held out (fingers lined up)
  • Pinch
  • Fist closed facing away
  • Fist closed facing towards
  • QC
    • Snapdragon optimization
    • OpenCV 3.0 => FastCV
    • Binary
    • Run time switch
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Action Items

Gary

  • Send list of gestures

Vincent

  • GSoC Videos!

Dimitry

  • Graphically generated examples

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2014-10-14

Agenda

  • Contest

Minutes

  • Contest
    • Now have 13 datasets that can be read
    • Contact
  • 3.0
    • To do
      • Primary goal is to finalize the API, some not backward compatible
      • Basic functionality API will stay unchanged from 2.X, load, store …
      • High level interfaces will change sightly
      • Reference manual switching to Doxygen
        • Place general ref in dox that … similar to RST
    • Alpha is released
    • Beta end of October
    • Full release: End of year

Action Items

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2014-10-28

Agenda

  • Contest
  • Code
  • Our site is down

Minutes

  • Site is down. Shishkov is back on Thursday to repair
  • Contest info https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B3q2uDDwKlfen8nIPGUYl_j3cXK3mjar1USUrEUpGLA/edit#heading=h.iakcszekqaak
    • Contest information is at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B3q2uDDwKlfen8nIPGUYl_j3cXK3mjar1USUrEUpGLA/edit#heading=h.iakcszekqaak
    • Have access to all 21 datasets (19 datasets plus one replacement plus on tracking set that has its own validation framework)
      • Documentation and examples done
        • Need a few more days to finish scripts
    • Need to wait to Thursday for site to come back up
    • Try to announce contest on Friday
      • On Thursday, send out emails to verify
  • OpenCV 3.0
    • Close to release of 3.0 Beta
      • Release first week of Nov
      • National unity day holidays in Russia
    • ARM optimization, bug fix, pull requests,
      • Most new functionality in OpenCV contrib
        • Need notes on how to do this add contrib on build
          • See change log
    • Documentation is next concentration, switch to doxygen
      • Maxim is adding doxygen for 3.0 final
  • Functional recode
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dL2MYJpJ6AVnggtsrX0XjzF9cjajUgoy6Ta1jfqLdaU/edit#gid=0
  • Goal to produce programming efficiency WITH optimal code
  • Was out sick with flu
  • Spent time on the language
    • Major StandardML
      • Close to C++ syntax
  • Stages
    • 1st Language speed like java, mainly functionality, better than python. Compiler for subset such as object training
    • 2nd templates loop and array comprehension … might need some cross platform intrinsics (on Intel, ARM …)
    • 3rd optimization loop fusion for speedup, expand inline functions — machine independent .
    • 4th optimization is to hardware — go to “enriched C with intrinsics” (Neon, SSE …)
  • Stage 1, EOY
  • Git Magic Leap
  • Apache 2.0
  • Target for this
    • At least as powerful as Matlab
    • Achieve high efficiency code, C level, especially on mobile
  • Target other platforms: GPU
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Action Items

Gary

  • Send out emails on Thursday for contest

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2014-11-05

Agenda

  • PO
  • Contest
  • OpenCV.org back up, was spammed.

Minutes

  • Contest
    • Need to be announced this week
      • Announcement proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aCKmUpwpDxozC7cmIcokKRqQdcA9cckXTb1G8WOLYmI/edit#heading=h.mpvtirb42db1
      • Datasets https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B3q2uDDwKlfen8nIPGUYl_j3cXK3mjar1USUrEUpGLA/edit#heading=h.iakcszekqaak
  • Since numl is much closer to StandardML (SML) than to OCaml, and I’m not proficient in either, and since we just started, I decided to spend a few extra days and convert the whole existing compiler code from OCaml to SML. The work has been nearly finished and now I’m debugging the extended parser (that supports new features, such as obligatory type declarations and such):
  • OpenCV 3.0
    • Nov 7 release of 3.0 Beta
      • new optimization
      • OpenCL optimization
      • GSoC 2014 results included in this release (in contrib and in the core part)
      • AKAZE, Computational Photography bits
  • OpenCV 4.x work is started in functional language. Similar to StandardML (SML). First version due in December

Action Items

Gary

  • PO to Google for GSoC and Mentor summit

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2014-11-12

Agenda

  • OpenCV 3.0 Beta
  • GSoC
  • Contest

Minutes

  • OpenCV 3.0 Beta
    • Release is out: http://opencv.org/opencv-3-0-beta.html
    • Final release early Jan
      • 40 new functions optimized on Neon (resize, color converstion, arithmetic …)
    • Before EOY, release final candidate will come out
      • 14 GSoC projects included
  • GSoC
    • Need to invoice Google
    • Have travel expenses, need to reimburse
  • Contest
    • Need to get the announcement out
    • Have Dmitry to support
    • Hope to send this out on Nov 13, 2014
  • Functional language
    • Preparing Beta
    • Parser
  • Plans
    • OpenCV benchmarks in progress
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Report from Vadim

Numl:
I continue stabilizing and extending the new version of Numl compiler, rewritten in StandardML.
The lexer and the parser part have been debugged, they seem to handle small test programs correctly.
The next step will be to add the module support and other new language features planned for phase 1.

https://github.com/vpisarev/numl/tree/sml_test_parser

OpenCV (put here for completeness, even though it's not the part of my paid contract):
beta 3.0 is out:

http://opencv.org/opencv-3-0-beta.html

Action Items

Gary

  • PO to Google for GSoC and Mentor summit
  • Contest announcement needs to go out

Dmitry

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2014-11-18

Agenda

  • Contest
  • OpenCV 3.0 is out in Beta!

Minutes

  • OpenCV 3.0 Beta http://opencv.org/opencv-3-0-beta.html
  • OpenCV 3.0 Final should be out in January
  • Contest
    • Get contest out as widely as possible
OpenCV Vision Challenge

OpenCV Foundation with support from DARPA and Intel Corporation are launching a community-wide challenge to update and extend the OpenCV library with state-of-art algorithms. An award pool of $50,000 is provided to reward submitters of the best performing algorithms in the following 11 CV application areas: (1) image segmentation, (2) image registration, (3) human pose estimation, (4) SLAM, (5) multi-view stereo matching, (6) object recognition, (7) face recognition, (8) gesture recognition, (9) action recognition, (10) text recognition, (11) tracking.

Conditions:

The OpenCV Vision Challenge Committee will judge up to five best entries.

You may submit a new algorithm developed by yourself or your implementation of an existing algorithm even if you are not the author of the algorithm.
You may enter any number of categories.
If your entry wins the contest you will be awarded $1K. To win an additional $7.5 to $9K, you must contribute the source code as an OpenCV pull request under a BSD license
You acknowledge that your contributed code may be included, with your copyright, in OpenCV

You may explicitly enter code for any work you have submitted to CVPR 2015 or its workshops. We will not unveil it until after CVPR.

Winners and prizes are at the sole discretion of the committee.

Timeline:

Submission Period: Now - May 8th 2015
Winners Announcement: June 8th 2015 at CVPR 2015

Detailed information can be found here: https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/wiki/VisionChallenge

Questions and the results should be sent to:
[email protected]

Thank you,

OpenCV Vision Challenge Committee


Numl:
No noticeable progress during last week; I concentrated on the plans on OpenCV 3.0. Will resume the work on the language (and hopefully spend full 2 weeks on it) starting this Wednesday.


OpenCV:

3.5 documents have been prepared on the OpenCV-related tasks (the document on HAL and optimizations is in progress)

Action Items

Gary

  • Write Hinton about X-Prize
  • Find out what Baidu wants/could do.

Vincent

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Vadim

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Grace

  • Get in GSoC invoice

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2014-11-25

Agenda

  • Contest

Minutes

  • Contest: announcement is out
    • Spread in Europe and China/Asia
  • Contacts for OpenCV
    • Anan Peleg
    • Visual computing institute: Europe
    • NIST
      • OpenVX is a possibility
        • 40 algorithms
  • OpenCV 3.0 Beta was released last week
    • Plans for 3.0 final, end of December
      • January for 3.0 final release
      • Reference manual converted to Doxygen
      • http://docs.opencv.org/ref/master/
  • Qcom fastcv discussion
  • NVidia Representitive for Europe Marketing
Vision Challenge

We (OpenCV Foundation) are running a computer vision contest. The goal is to get state of the art algorithms in at least
5 of 11 vision categories. We will have a workshop at CVPR 2015 to go over the winning entries. The code will then be
available in OpenCV contrib. It is OK to duplicate existing state of the art in an OpenCV compliant framework under a BSD
license or to develop new algorithms/code. It is OK if you have submitted the work elsewhere or currently submitted to this
CVPR, we will not leak entries early. This contest is for anybody, or any group, corporate, academic or private. There will
be a $50K award pool to distribute to the winners in the 5 top categories.

Please distribute and encourage people you know to enter!  You do not have to attend CVPR to enter the contest.


http://opencv.org/opencv-vision-challenge.html

Thank you

Gary Bradski
CEO OpenCV

Progress report



Numl:

After the delay related to OpenCV 3.0 beta release and the further plan development, the work on numl was resumed.

Learnt the useful MoscowML module PP (pretty printer generators) and implemented the pretty printer for the Numl

abstract syntax, which should be very useful to debug various compiler steps. The module can also be used to generate

the final nicely indented C code out of its hierarchical representation.

Using the AST pretty printer checked that the lexer and parser work fine after conversion to MoscowML.

Then, at the lexer/parser level added the following new stuff (this one is still not finished):

many primitive operations (almost complete set of Matlab/C++ operations, except for augmenting “+=” etc.)

more primitive types: single- and double- precision floating-point, 8-, 16-, 32-bit signed and unsigned integers, text strings

complex types: references, lists, multi-dimensional arrays, records, tagged variants and the syntax to define new types

mutually recursive functions

basic syntax for defining and throwing exceptions (no exception handling yet)

extended “if” statement with zero or more "elif"’s and optional “else”.

import statement for using other modules

The latest snapshot is available here: https://github.com/vpisarev/numl/tree/sml_test_parser/src

Numl Plans:

add some more elements to the lexer and parser:

switch (pattern matching) statement

exception handling syntax

accessing array slices

array literals

external c functions

finish such a parser, check it using updated pretty printer

parse the imported modules

implement syntax verification and type checking part, at least for the subset of the syntax

implement conversion to the simplified (k-normal) AST representation

after all this is done, the only 2 non-trivial things to implement would be the C code generator and the runtime.

all the other components can be adopted from the min-caml sources.


OpenCV:

Finished the document on possible OpenCV optimizations

Maxim Shabunin continues the work on semi-automatic RST=>Doxygen conversion. Some first results are available

here: http://docs.opencv.org/ref/master/

Action Items

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2014-12-09

Agenda

Minutes

  • Contest:
    • Dmitriy: more contacts with people that participate
    • answer more questions to help people

Action Items

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