10-5-2004

Got FW running on my workstation with camera belonging to undergrad program on very temporary loan. Grad program camera should be available by the end of the week for longer term usage. We will be borrowing that and a FW cable for the duration.

*note- figure out a good way to mount the camera to point at a background screen installed in cubicle to aid test work

Eyesweb took the input signal nicely. Most of the sample patches worked well enough – was able to run some of the basic silhouette and background extraction patches outright. A smooth, matte background screen (a piece of paper) worked best, which makes sense.

Ambient lighting didn’t seem to make too much of a difference considering that we are able to go in and adjust the threshold levels to compensate. There is minimal delay in the more basic patches, which is encouraging. I also spent some time playing around with other individual blocks to manipulate the screen image.

*note – look for some kind of shear type block so that we can place the camera at an off-angle and compensate for it.