LW12 Protocol and Python Package

For my new flat I wanted controllable RGB LED stripes. Problem is, most of the controllable cheap ones only have IR remotes, so the receiver must be in line of sight of the remote somehow. That has several drawbacks: you cannot install it behind some furniture without...

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SICK PLS 101-312, Python and Linux

After fiddling around with some ultrasonic sensors for S.A.R.A.H. (my home automation system), I was looking for other options. Thanks to ebay, industrial laserscanners are now an option :) In this article I will describe how I connected the scanner with a regular PC,...

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Displacement priors

What is the target of all this ? Driving in an automotive scenario with a given speed and turnrate at any moment, we want to predict the displacement of a 2D-projection (pixel) between two frames: By using the camera-calibration, I can create artificial curves...

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Symmetry detection

This will probably become one of our modalities in the future: symmetry ! Thanks to the guys at hs-niederrhein, there is symmetry-detection-code that can already be used for some first estimates: This software implements the gradient product transform for symmetry detection that is described...

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Lane detection

Today I will try to detect some lanes.. Assumptions: – We know the lane-width (plus minus) – We are inside the middle of a lane – We know the camera geometry – Based on the turnrate of the IMU we can estimate the curvature...

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Training Cascades to detect cars

I spent some time on training several cascades to detect cars in ego-view automotive videos, and will now document what I’ve learned. I will use the existing OpenCV-tools. Data preparation ./cascadetraining/ -> pos/ 1000 images containing the desired object -> pos.info (containing the filenames...

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BCCN 2015 Poster

We presented our poster at the BCCN conference 2015 in Heidelberg. It describes our system platform and a first case study of brakelight detection.

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