[oats-sig] webcam mouse movement = mouseTrap

That's the same Flavio in both cases Simon ;-)

Looks like a great project Flavio. If you're kind enough to make the
source available then perhaps we can try to build it on our own
systems.

Stephen Emslie

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:
> That's the same Flavio in both cases Simon ;-)
>
> I spotted pyatspi (great) is used which is GNOME only, but IA2 reduces
> the gap evenif no python binding yet.
>
> @Flavio: where does pyatspi get used, just for selecting useful
> windows to auto-focus?
> Can we look at the code? Don't be shy about it not looking too neat.
> It works well and polish can follow. ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> On 21/05/2008, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
>> Hey Flavio,
>>
>>  That is fantastic!!!
>>
>>  Should you be linking up with
>>
>>  http://blogs.sun.com/wwalker/entry/low_cost_control_of_the
>>
>>  (from a mail from Steve a while back)?
>>
>>  I assume since you are using Python and OpenCV it will be able to work
>>  across operating systems?
>>
>>  I look forward to playing with this, in fact, I'll do it now!
>>
>>  Cheers.
>>
>>  Simon
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
>>  [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Flavio Percoco
>>  Premoli
>>  Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:34 PM
>>  To: oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk
>>  Subject: [oats-sig] webcam mouse movement = mouseTrap
>>
>>  Greetings!!
>>
>>  I'm working right now in a new project called mouseTrap. It is based in
>>  at-spi and OpenCV libraries using the python programing language.
>>
>>  mouseTrap is an accessibility application to move the mouse pointer with a
>>  web cam and face detect features without using the mouse or keyboard, it
>>  will use the eye track too (working on it ) so there wont be no need to move
>>  the head.
>>
>>  I'm trying to install the vxl library which gives me a compiling error (any
>>  help??) to test the opengazer features and so implement them in mouseTrap.
>>
>>  Well, I won't bother you with a long mail, here are the demo links:
>>
>>  The first one uses a complete face detection (with require a lot of CPU
>>  usage), the second one is the one that uses the latest improvements where i
>>  changed the complete face detection for a point tracker (less CPU Usage).
>>  Well, I'm working on it, and i hope you like it.
>>
>>  1) http://www.flaper87.org/files/videos/mouseTrapCam.ogg
>>
>>  2) OGG: http://www.flaper87.org/files/videos/mouseTrapCam2.ogg
>>
>>  2) AVI: http://www.flaper87.org/files/videos/mouseTrapCam2.avi
>>
>>  Thanks for reading
>>
>>  --
>>  Flavio Percoco Premoli, A.K.A. [Flaper87] http://www.flaper87.org Usuario
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>>  pow(8,2)+20, 4900**0.5, range(78)[-1], 10)"
>>
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