Author Archives: georgklein

Pre-cooked linux image

Posted on October 13, 2010

Yoshinari Kameda has made available some patches to get PTAM running on Ubuntu, as well as a downloadable Linux image which should include everything needed to run PTAM. More information in his comment on the video sources page.

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GStreamer video source

Posted on September 26, 2010

James Y. Wilson has sent along a video source which uses GStreamer on Linux to read video files. Find this on the video inputs page.

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Win32 video inputs for directshow and point grey

Posted on May 28, 2010

Added two video inputs useful on Win32 to the video inputs page. In particular, PTAM can use arbitrary webcams with directshow drivers using the videoInput library.

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Video inputs page

Posted on May 17, 2010

Added a page to collect code for various video input methods people have used.

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New blog

Posted on April 30, 2010

News/updates on PTAM will now appear here rather than on the robots.ox.ac.uk page. Hopefully this will lead to more regular updates. Meanwhile I’ve put up a page with links to other people who’ve managed to integrate PTAM into their projects.

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Quicktime video input on MacOS X 10.6 currently broken

Posted on April 30, 2010

By default, libCVD compiles to 64 bit on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. However CVD uses QuickTime.Framework for video input, and this does not support 64-bit C bindings. Currently to get video input on snow leopard options are to either … Continue reading →

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