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Experiments with Computer Vision

Ideas

Text extraction from images
- German tank problem:
  - Identify "serial numbers"
  - Extract for analysis - how many there are
  - On recipts: how much is the business making per day/week/etc
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Bird identification
- Webcam monitoring birdfeeder
- Take picture when bird is in frame
- ID the bird
Using the face finder to center the images from the commit pics
Barcode reading!
- URL talking about barcode identification with OpenCV: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9013703/how-to-find-the-location-of-red-region-in-an-image-using-matlab/9014569#9014569
- Pictures from various sources