Tag Archive for 'FlashSURF'

FlashSURF -> ASSURF

February 24, 2010
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The shortest blog post of mine.
I’ve received a mail from the Group Product Manager of Adobe Flash Player:
“I’m writing to you because the current name of the library misuses the Flash brand. As you know, Flash® is a well-known trademark of Adobe registered in many countries, and in order for us to protect it we need to be diligent about the proper use of the mark… etc.”

As you may understand Adobe asked me to change the Lib name. I’ve no chance to debate on the subject as far as they are right here and they do what they should do. So after not long conversation new name has been chosen ASSURF. (thanx to Mario Klingemann and Jon Howard for the idea)

So if you have any bookmarks update it:
ASSURF Wiki page
ASSURF SWC Lib development project
ASSURF usage examples project

FlashSURF – moving further

February 22, 2010
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FlashSURF

Past couple of weeks I was working on FlashSURF project updates. More likely cosmetic updates: refactoring, adding methods, etc. I’ve screen-casted several videos showing up some usage possibilities.
Project SVN repo was divided in to 2 separate projects: one for FlashSURF SWC Lib development only and another for example projects. Now FlashSURF become really easy to use as far you don’t have to compile and process it with TDSI every time you testing your project. Provided SWC lib already processed, all you need is to include it in your project.

As I’ve already mentioned I’ve screen-casted some videos. All this features are presented in Examples project and can be easily reproduced.

This one demonstrates multiple image tracking/searching in input video stream. I’ve precalculated several images and store them as references for future tracking. Then we just loops through references to search each on the screen.




Here I’ve implemented selection tool and with the help of it I can easily select regions on the screen to store it as references. I was experimenting with playing cards and as you see it works pretty well.

You will find more examples in the repository with demonstration of panoramic stitching, finding Homography matrix between reference and tracked object on the screen, saving and loading references as local binary files etc.

I do realize there is a lot to add and improve in the project. I kindly ask everyone who is interested in using it to take a part by submitting features/methods requests and sharing improvements that can be done to existing methods. Just submit an issue in Code repo or simply drop me a line.