Vision: what's state of the art in FRC?

[faust1706]

Originally Posted by yash101

Also, I think OpenCV can be a tad inefficient in general. I was running a small test and OpenCV's windows maxed out one of my system's cores (i3)!

I really think converting color spaces, thresholding and some of these relatively simple transformations should be much faster, especially because the formula should be constant.

It can be inefficient, but it great at what it does. It is an open source library that people volunteer their time to contribute to. I think I'm going to be able to get away with taking 6 credit hours next semester for doing research in the field of computer science. That means I'll have dedicated time to work on stuff, like optimizing the opencv library (or just the functions I use regularly, such as erode, dilate, find contours, appoxpoly, solvepnp, and optical flow)

I've still not looked at the source code for opencv in depth. I really hope some things in it aren't parallel-ly computed because I love doing parallel computing and it'd give me great practice.

Like you mentioned...2 months ago to me, it spawns threads when it'd be quicker not to do it. Maybe I could simple put a condition that if the image resolution < (x,y), then don't spawn another thread.