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[oats-sig] open gazer problems

stephen emslie stephenemslie at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 12:22:54 GMT 2007

Article: [oats-sig] open gazer problems

I'm afraid I've made a few attempts to contact the developer without
success. If you have any luck I would love to know!

Stephen Emslie

On Nov 8, 2007 12:12 PM, Chris Feser <chrimp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> 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
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > View this message in context:
> >> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-open-gazer-tf4558293.html#a13628973
> >> >
> >> > Sent from the OATS Project Interest Group mailing list archive at
> >> Nabble.com.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Lee
> > --
> > Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
> > www.fullmeasure.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-open-gazer-tf4558293.html#a13645868
>
> Sent from the OATS Project Interest Group mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
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