Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I've been playing around with OpenCV over the last few weeks while reading/coding along with the Learning OpenCV book. Overall I'm pretty impressed with how easy it is to do quite complex things, thanks to the rich library of visual computing functions. The library is natively in C, but there are also python bindings using SWIG. It is actually an interesting exercise taking the examples in the…
Since I took possession of my Nokia N900 (a marvellous piece of smartphone technology, despite being mercilessly killed off by my employer) I've been using eCoach to track my sports activities outdoors. Mainly running and more recently cycling, it's a pretty decent analogue of SportsTracker which is, vaguely speaking, the S60 version and forerunner in many ways (not that eCoach is a port - it's…