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Remember the pistol controller for the original Atari 2600? No? Perhaps that’s because it never existed. But now that we’re living in the future, adding a pistol to the classic …read more Continue reading Adding a Laser Blaster to Classic Atari 2600 Games with Machine Vision
Is it really cheating if the aimbot you’ve built plays the game worse than you do? We vote no, and while we take a dim view on cheating in general, …read more Continue reading Teaching a Machine to Be Worse at a Video Game Than You Are
Once a popular craze, most of the public has sold or stashed away their plastic video game instruments and forgotten the likes of Guitar Hero and Rockband. Having never been …read more Continue reading Guitar Hero Robot Actually Shreds
PC gamers consider their platform superior for the sheer processing power that can be brought to bear, as well as the inherent customisability of their rigs. Where they’re let down …read more Continue reading Haptic Feedback For FPS Games Relies on OpenCV
It’s always fun to look over aerial and satellite maps of places we know, seeing a perspective different from our usual ground level view. We lose that context when it’s …read more Continue reading Putting Perseverance Rover’s View Into Satellite View Context
Judging by the over-representation of the term “AI” in our news feeds these days, we’re clearly in the exponential phase of the artificial intelligence hype cycle, and very nearly at …read more Continue reading An AI-Free Way to Catch Wildlife on Camera
There was a time when making a machine to identify objects in a camera was difficult, even without trying to do it in real time. But now, you can do …read more Continue reading Real Time Object Detection for $59
When we first heard of [Ildar Rakhmatulin’s] plan to use OpenCV on a Raspberry Pi to detect mosquitos and then zap them with a 1 watt laser, we thought it was sort of humorous. However, the paper points out that …read more
Using vision technology to identify weeds in agriculture is an area of active development, and a team of researchers recently shared their method of using a combination of machine vision plus depth information to identify and map weeds with the …read more
Do you have a great application for computer vision, but couldn’t spare the cost of hardware needed to build it? Or perhaps you just need a deadline to pull you away from endless doom scrolling? Either way, the OpenCV team …read more
Continue reading OpenCV Spreads Smart Camera Joy To See Ideas Come To Life