Track-and-Control

Software Design and Development with Professor Pierre Elysee ^⁽¹⁾

^{^{(1) Wentworth Institute of Technology | Boston, MA}}

Installation

Download CMake and click Add CMake to the system PATH for all users during the installation.
Download OpenCV version 2.4.8.
- Put the opencv folder into your Track-and-Control directory.
Run the build_project.bat file (this builds the Visual Studio project with CMake).
Now you can open tracking_module_build/Debug/TrackingModule.exe or the Visual Studio project.

Tracking Module (TM)
- Input: Raw camera data
- Output: Coordinates of tracked object
- Methods of approach:
  - Color isolation
    - OpenCV
      - HSV
      - RGB
      - Only filter movement detection
  - Infrared isolation
    - Wiimote as infrared camera
    - Infrared lights facing user
    - Reflection off iris
  - Facial recognition
    - OpenCV
    - No external hardware necessary
Window Controller (WC)
- Window Viewer (3D)
- Window Grid Organizer
  - Left, Right, Top, Bottom, and Middle.
  - hot key + shift = full grid view.
- Sleep Manager
  - Off screen delay
  - Sleep or screen dim (user setting)
- All features have a user defined hot key