Apr 24

WTH OpenGL 4? Rendering elements arrays with VAOs and VBOs in a QGLWidget

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I spent an entire day getting OpenGL 4 to display data from a VAO with VBOs so I thought I'd share the results with you guys, save you some pain.

I'm using the excellent GL wrappers from Qt, and in particular QGLShaderProgram.
This is pretty straightforward, but the thing to remember is that OpenGL is looking for the vertices/other elements (color? tex coords?) to come from some bound GL buffer or from the host. So if your app is not working and nothing appears on screen, just make sure GL has a bound buffer and the shader locations match up and consistent (see the const int I have on the class here).

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Mar 04

[Python] OpenCV capturing from a v4l2 device

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I tried to set the capture format on a webcam from OpenCV's cv2.VideoCapture and ran into a problem: it's using the wrong IOCTL command.
So I used python-v4l2capture to get images from the device, which allows more control.
Here is the gist:

Enjoy!
Roy

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Mar 02

OpenCV Python YAML persistance

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I wasn't able to find online a complete example on how to persist OpenCV matrices in Python (so really NumPy arrays) to YAML like what cv::FileStorage will give you.

So here's a short snippet:

import numpy as np
import yaml

# A yaml constructor is for loading from a yaml node.
# This is taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15942429
def opencv_matrix_constructor(loader, node):
    mapping = loader.construct_mapping(node, deep=True)
    mat = np.array(mapping["data"])
    mat.resize(mapping["rows"], mapping["cols"])
    return mat
yaml.add_constructor(u"tag:yaml.org,2002:opencv-matrix", opencv_matrix_constructor)

# A yaml representer is for dumping structs into a yaml node.
# So for an opencv_matrix type (to be compatible with c++'s FileStorage) we save the rows, cols, type and flattened-data
def opencv_matrix_representer(dumper, mat):
    mapping = {'rows': mat.shape[0], 'cols': mat.shape[1], 'dt': 'd', 'data': mat.reshape(-1).tolist()}
    return dumper.represent_mapping(u"tag:yaml.org,2002:opencv-matrix", mapping)
yaml.add_representer(np.ndarray, opencv_matrix_representer)


#example
with open('output.yaml', 'w') as f:
    f.write("%YAML:1.0")
    yaml.dump({"a matrix": np.zeros((10,10)), "another_one": np.zeros((2,4))}, f)

#   a matrix: !!opencv-matrix
#     cols: 10
#     data: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
#       0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
#       0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
#       0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
#       0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
#       0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
#       0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
#     dt: d
#     rows: 10
#   another_one: !!opencv-matrix
#     cols: 4
#     data: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
#     dt: d
#     rows: 2

with open('output.yaml', 'r') as f:
    print yaml.load(f)
  
#  {'a matrix': array([[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.]]), 'another_one': array([[ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.],
#         [ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.]])}

There you go

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Jan 28

Adding radial labels to Dimple.JS pie chart

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Too bad Dimple.JS doesn't have this feature built-in. They only have a boring old legend, where pie charts scream for labels that circle the actual pie (or donut).
Anyway, here's how to get it done using some d3.js love.

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Jan 27

Bootstrap3 fluid container with custom width sidebar

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I was looking for a way to get a fluid container live side-by-side with a custom width sidebar.
A custom width sidebar can't be achieved with a Bootstrap column, and is a total mess to get right with floats if you then need a fluid container to get a grid system for the main section.
So, here's one solution:

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/6sfog80k/

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Jan 15

YUYV to JPEG conversion with libjpeg

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Sharing a small libjpeg snippet.

Some SO questions about it have only partial snippets:

Enjoy!
Roy

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Aug 03

Smallest ATTiny45 USB

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USB ATTiny45-20

USB ATTiny45-20


Just wanted to report on completing a quick electronics prototyping project - making a very tiny ATTiny45-based simple USB dongle.
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May 08

Quickly: How to render a PDF to an image in C++?

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Using Poppler, of course!
Poppler is a very useful tool for handling PDF, so I've discovered lately. Having tried both muPDF and ImageMagick's Magick++ and failed, Poppler stepped up to the challenge and paid off.

So here's a small example of how work the API (with OpenCV, naturally):

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include <poppler-document.h>
#include <poppler-page.h>
#include <poppler-page-renderer.h>
#include <poppler-image.h>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;
using namespace poppler;

Mat readPDFtoCV(const string& filename,int DPI) {
    document* mypdf = document::load_from_file(filename);
    if(mypdf == NULL) {
        cerr << "couldn't read pdf\n";
        return Mat();
    }
    cout << "pdf has " << mypdf->pages() << " pages\n";
    page* mypage = mypdf->create_page(0);

    page_renderer renderer;
    renderer.set_render_hint(page_renderer::text_antialiasing);
    image myimage = renderer.render_page(mypage,DPI,DPI);
    cout << "created image of  " << myimage.width() << "x"<< myimage.height() << "\n";

    Mat cvimg;
    if(myimage.format() == image::format_rgb24) {
        Mat(myimage.height(),myimage.width(),CV_8UC3,myimage.data()).copyTo(cvimg);
    } else if(myimage.format() == image::format_argb32) {
        Mat(myimage.height(),myimage.width(),CV_8UC4,myimage.data()).copyTo(cvimg);
    } else {
        cerr << "PDF format no good\n";
        return Mat();
    }
    return cvimg;
}

All you have to do is give it the DPI (say you want to render in 100 DPI) and a filename.
Keep in mind it only renders the first page, but getting the other pages is just as easy.

That's it, enjoy!
Roy.

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Apr 20

מאגר שמות ישראליים בעברית - Israeli hebrew names dataset

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זהו פוסט ראשון בבלוג בעברית, מאחר והוא דן בנושא שמות ישראליים בעברית. לאחרונה יצא לי להתעסק בכריית שמות מדפי אינטרנט ומהר הבנתי שלא אתקדם הרבה אם לא תהיה לי רשימת מילים שהן למעשה שמות, כדי להפריד בקלות את הטקסט מהשמות.
לא מצאתי רשימה כזו פשוטה, למרות שבאתר מ.י.ל.ה של הטכניון יש לקסיקון די נרחב של מילים בעברים עם טיוג גם לשמות. למרות שאפשר בקלות לדלות משם את השמות עם JAXB על הסכמה של הXML, לא עשיתי זאת מפאת חוסר זמן וקוצר רוח.
אז עשיתי רשימה בעצמי. התחלתי ממאגר שמות שקיים אצלי ופירקתי לשם פרטי ומשפחה באמצעות רווחים, ולאחר מכן התחלתי במלאכת הכרייה שהוסיפה הרבה מאוד שמות למאגר.
לאחר מכן חזרתי למאגר שלי ומניתי את המופעים של כל שם כשם פרטי ושם משפחה, כדי לעזור בכרייה עתידית. כך אפשר למצוא עוד שמות למשל אם לוקחים את המילה שבאה לפני שם משפחה מובהק מאוד.
עם זאת ישנם שמות מאוד מבלבלים מבחינת שיוך לשם פרטי או משפחה, למשל "גל", "שלום", או "ברק". לעומתם שמות מובהקים לכאן או לכאן כמו "אהוד" או "לוי"

בכל מקרה, הנה הרשימה לשימושכם החופשי.
נא לקחת בחשבון שזו רשימה חלקית ביותר, וכן המנייה של השמות חלקית ביותר גם היא.
hebrew_names

This is the first hebrew speaking post on the MTT blog, since it speaks of names in Hebrew. This is also not a translation of the above text, just a preamble to it. I've collected a list of Hebrew first and last names and counted the number of times a name appears as first and last on a private database of names. The result may be useful for someone extracting Hebrew names from the web.

Enjoy!
Roy.

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