[oats-sig] open gazer problems

Great that you got it working! It took me quite a while to get the

Someone just reminded me of this too, if anyone wants to get their hands
really dirty!!! 

http://thirtysixthspan.com/openEyes

Cheers.

Simon

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From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:47 AM
To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
Subject: Re: [oats-sig] open gazer problems

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:
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> >
> > 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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