[Kde-announce-apps] kmando 1.0

[Jan Wedekind]

Name: kmando
Version: 1.0
Type: Hardware Utility
Depend: Qt 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage:
http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/mediawiki/index.php/Interactive_Camera-Projector_System
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=47105

Description:
 A software for camera-projector interaction was
developed by Juan Roldan, Ushakiran Soutapalli,
Julien Faucher, and Jan Wedekind at the
Microsystem & Machine Vision Laboratory (MMVL) at
Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
The software makes use of a low cost off-the shelf
webcam that is calibrated against a standard
projector screen. The webcam is used to determine
the position of physical pointer (e.g. a pen)
which is then used to virtually move the X11
pointer. Point-and-click functionality has also
been implemented.
The vision system uses the Mimas real-time
computer vision toolkit developed by the MMVL.
The wizard allows you to take a reference picture
showing the pointer. You then have to select the
region in the image for generating a reference
histogram. If you are using a projector, make sure
that the desktop has a bright background.
Otherwise the pointer will be illuminated
differently and it will not be recognized any
more.
Also see
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4201589281466176805

Changelog:
 2007-02-02  Jan Wedekind  1.0
        - Applications seems to run stable now ->
releasing version 1.0

2006-10-20  Jan Wedekind  0.6
        - Minor fixes on configure-script

2006-10-20  Jan Wedekind  0.5
        - Fixed the check for gfortran (using
AC_PROG_FC now).
        Thanks to Steven G. Johnson!
# On the older Mandriva version you may have to
configure using
./configure FLIBS="-lgfortran"

# On openSuSE 10.0 libgfortranbegin.a was compiled
without "-fPIC". You need to configure using
./configure F77=gfortran FLIBS="-lgfortran"

2006-10-17  Jan Wedekind  0.4
        - Added support for UYVY-cameras.

2006-10-16  Jan Wedekind  0.3
        - Video display can be zoomed using the
mouse-wheel.
        - Display error-messages when accessing
camera fails.

2006-10-13  Jan Wedekind  0.2
        - Removed dependency on ImageMagick.