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OpenCv Blob/Contour labeling

Hi i have been working on this for a while and yet to have no good solution. I am reading a video frame by frame and am using background subtraction to ' identify the region where is there movement and use cvFindContours() to get the rectangle boundary of the moving objects. Assuming the program is kept simple there can be only 2 human...

Are there human 3D models/libraries?

I'm a dance teacher and I was thinking of writing some code to produce 3D animations of dance moves from choreography stored in a database. The dancing to data model representation I could write but I know nothing about graphics programming. I wondered if anyone could recommend a library or similar of 3D human models, ideally with reali...

Implementing "Report this content" and detecting spammer or robot triggered event

I'm creating a forum for a website, and plan on implementing a "Report this content" function. In all honesty, I'm not sure how useful (lit. necessary) the feature will be, since a user account (created by admin) will be required for posting, but the solution interests me. So in short, this is the scenario: For all users, there will b...

Converting human readable date to java date object

Here is my problem - I need to parse a string and find whether it contains a date. Examples of strings: "Tomorrow 2AM" "16 February 2010 16:00" "Today 16:00" Do you know of any java library which addresses human readable dates conversion? thanks in advance! ...

When has a human-based service replaced an automated one?

I'm looking for examples where a human-based service replaced an automated one. For example, machine translation (although suboptimal in quality) largely replaced human translation in many areas -- can anyone think of where the opposite has occurred (especially with regard to today's industry)? Edit: Before you downvote because this doe...

Any way to automate - for testing - a human-dependant action?

I wonder if there are any good / possible ways to automate - for a unit test perhaps - a human-dependant action on an eCommerce website? For example, could I have a macro or a script to simulate "can user put items in basket?" or "can user reach the payment gateway?". I am currently managing a very heavily used eCommerce codebase and w...