Using Open CV to solve a real world problem

John Harrison

Thursday 13 July 2017 from 10:30 to 11:20

Talk in English - US at OpenWest Conference 2017
Track Name: 300D - Programming
View Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B94DkwiFoHfvSGhZZXZnWHhoM1E/view?usp=sharing
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/bf37b (QR-Code (opens in new window))

Avg. Rating

OpenCV allows you to process photos in new and exciting ways. This talk is a real-world use case of the software: building a diagram recognizer for Lucidchart. Our goal was to create a system that would allow a user to take a photograph of a flowchart on a whiteboard and create a Lucidchart diagram from that photograph. We were able to achieve this goal but decided to not commercialize the system. I will discuss the challenges faced, the capabilities of the system, and the real world limitations. [155]

Comments

Comments are closed.

Sean Dague at 21:33 on 13 Jul 2017

I really appreciated a talk showing a hard thing that was attempted, even though it turned out to fail in the end. Sharing the learning along the way was great.