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[oats-sig] open gazer problems

Chris Feser chrimp at gmx.de
Thu Nov 8 12:12:20 GMT 2007

Article: [oats-sig] open gazer problems

This is great.

Does anybody of you guys have directly contact to one of the developers?
It would be nice to hear their further intention.

chris 


Steve Lee-3 wrote:
> 
> Perhaps this demo of MyTobii and the SmartBox's Grid2 will inspire you.
> 
> http://uk.youtube.com/user/mobiletobii
> 
> One thing that really struck me is how far we have to go with
> optimising this mode of input. It takes conciderable time to createa
> very short phrase.
> 
> http://www.smartboxat.com/mytobii.html
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 07/11/2007, stephen emslie <stephenemslie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Great that you got it working! It took me quite a while to get the
>> feel of compiling against vxl too.
>>
>> I would love to hear any feedback on what sort of accuracy you are
>> able to achieve and what webcam you are using.
>>
>> Stephen Emslie
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2007 3:11 PM, Chris Feser <chrimp at gmx.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thx Steve!
>> > Now I understand the connection from vxl to opengazer.
>> > I fixed it quick and dirty and copied the missing files to the expected
>> > directory. I have no idea what I did wrong the whole time, but now it
>> works.
>> >
>> > thank you all very much for your help!
>> >
>> > I wrote the developer of opengazer an email if there is a support forum
>> or a
>> > mailing list, but I have no answer yet.
>> > Does anybody of you have an idea or is this forum the best place for
>> > opengazer problems?
>> >
>> > I'll play around with opengazer and try to extend it or even will try,
>> to
>> > port it to Windows.
>> >
>> > cheers and have a nice day!
>> >
>> > chris
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Steve Lee-3 wrote:
>> > >
>> >
>> > > Hi Chris, yes, and to give a little more detail to my previous
>> reply....
>> > >
>> > > taking theLeastSquares.h:2:28  error as an example
>> > > Look in the file LeastSquares.h line 28
>> > > it will have a line something like
>> > > #include <vnl.vnl_vector.h>
>> > > or
>> > > #include "vnl.vnl_vector.h"
>> > >
>> > > I'm guess  from the error it has <vnl/vnl_vector.h>.
>> > >
>> > > The critical thing is if it is prefixed 'vnl/'. if so then the
>> > > compiler will search for a file 'vnl/vnl_vector.h' under each of the
>> > > paths specified in you makefile with INCLUDES. In other words
>> > > vnl_vector.h is sought in a folder vnl under each given path.
>> > > (if the #include "file" form is used life is a little more complex
>> but
>> > > we can probably ignore that)
>> > >
>> > > If your vnl_vector.h is not in such a folder then you can either copy
>> > > all of them for a quick fix or change the makefile to change where
>> the
>> > > compiler is told to look.
>> > >
>> > > I'm afraid I'm tied up at the mo and can't check the real files but
>> > > perhaps stephen can shed a little more light on the matter?
>> > > * stephen where are your vnl headers?
>> > > I have Gutsy so will try, but it probably won't be till next week.
>> > >
>> > > Steve
>> > >
>> > > On 06/11/2007, Chris Feser <chrimp at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Thx.
>> > >> I think I have a problem wih the header files.
>> > >> Should they be there, where I compiled VXL into?
>> > >> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS are ON and I changes the  CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to
>> > >> /usr/bin
>> > >> because I compiled VLX now into this directory.
>> > >>
>> > >> Could yo please tell me, where are the header files should be?
>> > >>
>> > >> I use ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
>> > >>
>> > >> cheers
>> > >> chris
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Stephen Emslie wrote:
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Now that I'm home perhaps I can compare my own Makefile.
>> > >> >
>> > >> >> but my compiled vxl is there:
>> > >> >>  /home/chris/Desktop/software/bin
>> > >> > ...
>> > >> >> My Makefile looks like this:
>> > >> >> # required libraries: vxl, opencv, boost, gtkmm
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> VXLDIR = /home/chris/Desktop/software/bin
>> > >> >
>> > >> > It could be that the header files built when installing vxl are
>> not in
>> > >> > /home/chris/Desktop/software/bin? When you configured vxl with
>> cmake,
>> > >> > what was "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" set to (mine is /usr - same as
>> > >> > VXLDIR)? Obviously "BUILD_SHARED_LIBS" needs to be on for this to
>> > >> > work.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The only thing I really had to change in the Makefile was to set
>> the
>> > >> > VXLDIR to the same as the install prefix.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Best of luck
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Stephen Emslie
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> View this message in context:
>> > >> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-open-gazer-tf4558293.html#a13615292
>> > >> Sent from the OATS Project Interest Group mailing list archive at
>> > >> Nabble.com.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Steve Lee
>> > > --
>> > > Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
>> > > www.fullmeasure.co.uk
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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>> >
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>> Nabble.com.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve Lee
> --
> Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
> www.fullmeasure.co.uk
> 
> 
> 

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