Week 8: Face Detection

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Week 8: Face Detection

April 25, 2010

Everything from this week you’ll find in next week’s article: Week 9: Face Detection (Continued).

Posted by Raphael Schaad

Filed in Project 2

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Week 7: OpenCV Meets the iPhone

April 18, 2010

Compiler flags, cross-compiling, versions, static linking, simulator vs. device—it’s tricky.

Useful links about building OpenCV for other platforms and linking to the library:

• OpenCVWiki explains ways how to build for Mac OS X: Mac OS X OpenCV Port
• Basics of cross-compiling: Cross-compiling for iPhone
• Building for different platforms: Creating an universal static OpenCV library in (Snow) Leopard
• Makefile, patches, good build tutorial and a example project: Using OpenCV on iPhone
• Linking tips: OpenCV vs. Apple iPhone

It seems that dynamic linking with a private .framework doesn’t work and OpenCV only works linked as a static library.

With all the given work what had to be done:

1. Build OpenCV-2.0.0 for iPhone OS 3.1 (simulator and device) according to this good tutorial.
2. Under Target > Build > Linking > Other Linker Flags (These flags are passed with all linker invocations. [OTHER_LDFLAGS]) add Build Setting Conditions for Any iPhone Device/Any Architecture and Any iPhone OS Simulator/Any Architecture. Add the flags -lstdc++, -lz, $(SRCROOT)/OpenCV/opencv_{device,simulator}/lib/libcv.a and libcxcore.a
3. Under Target > Build > Search Paths > Header Search Paths (This is a list of paths to folders to be searched by the compiler for included or imported header files when compiling C, Objective-C, C++, or Objective-C++. Paths are delimited by whitespace, so any paths with spaces in them need to be properly quoted. [HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS, -I]) add Build Setting Conditions for Any iPhone Device/Any Architecture and Any Iphone OS Simulator/Any Architecture. Add the path $(SRCROOT)/OpenCV/opencv_{device,simulator}/include without recursive flag.
4. #import <opencv/cv.h>

Other option is adding headers to project and #import "cv.h".

The compiler threw some linking warnings like ld: warning: can't add line info to anonymous symbol __ZN2cv9ExceptionD1Ev.lsda from /Users/raff/Development/Durchblick/OpenCV/opencv_simulator/lib/libcxcore.a(lib_cxcore_la-cxmathfuncs.o) when building for the simulator which I couldn’t solve. I guess I simply could’ve ignore them. When using the precompiled lib there were no warnings.

Posted by Raphael Schaad

Filed in Project 2 ·Tags: iPhone, linking, OpenCV, static library, Xcode

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Week 6: SRS Revisited

April 11, 2010

After last week’s milestone meeting the SRS needed a revision with a lot of good changes.

Posted by Raphael Schaad

Filed in Project 2 ·Tags: Software Requirements Specification, SRS

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