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				<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:13:22 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Vision Classification Library</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've been working recently on a "Vision Classification" library, this library is based on the EyePatch library but targets Linux/Unix users and it's only the core library (No GUI). This gives you the flexibility of using the library in any application. It's relies on OpenCV for the core algorithms to provide basic classifiers:<br /><ul class='bbcode'><li class='bbcode'>Background Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>Color Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>Shape Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>Sift Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>Surf Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>Gesture Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>Motion Classifier<br /></li><li class='bbcode'>OCR Classifier (using Tesseract)<br /></li></ul><br /><br />This is basically an early release, I just wanted whoever is interested in vision classification to give it a go and let me know what they think. You can get the library from svn by : svn co https://cas-robotics.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cas-robotics/VisionClassification<br />Email me for any questions/recommendations. Check the wiki: http://www.tarektaha.com/wiki/index.php/VisionClassificationLib for basic information<br /><br />Regards,<br />Tarek]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:35:55 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Belated Update</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi,<br /><br />  Sorry for the lack of update in the last few months, I've been very busy with work and thesis and didn't have time for anything else. Expect more updates from now on and I will be adding more tutorial sections soon. I've been receiving a lot of emails about the mricp driver and compiling for the new playerstage release. MRICP is now an official plugin in playerstage and you don't have to compile it separately any more, here is the location of the updated driver code if you are interested <a href="http://playerstage.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/playerstage/code/player/trunk/server/drivers/mixed/mricp/" rel="external">http://playerstage.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/playerstage/code/player/trunk/server/drivers/mixed/mricp/</a>, it is bundeled with playerstage so you don't have to download it. The driver's name in playerstage is "mricp" instead of "MRICP" (case sensitive) so update your configuration files with the new name.<br /> Finally, I released (un-officially) a new beta version of autogallery too, this version contains some major improvements and a lot of new features were added since the old alpha version. This release is stable but expect few bugs and you can get it from <a href="http://plugins.e107.org/e107_plugins/psilo/psilo.php?artifact.510" target="_blank">http://plugins.e107.org/e107_plugins/psilo/psilo.php?artifact.510 </a>(3656                      downloads until now ).  More for later ...<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Tarek]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:58:07 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>N95 Accelerometer to control Wheelchairs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I just finished from integrating my N95 internal accelerometer with my wheelchair system and now i am able to control the wheelchair by simply tilting the mobile phone. This application has great potentials, i will write a detailed instructions about how to integrate the accelerometer with a linux P.C and upload a video soon. Check this <a href="http://www.tarektaha.com/research/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2">forum link</a> for the code.]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:32:04 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>SSPP driver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SSPP (Search Space Path Planning) player/stage plugin driver has been added to the download section. This driver is a wrapper for my path planning library and it simplifies the interaction between player clients and the library. The driver works just like the wavefront driver, but it's better suited for narrow areas and passages where the wavefront fails to find paths. All you need to do is provide a goal destination and the driver will find a path and use the underlying position device to drive the robot to that destination, check the <a href="../wiki/index.php?title=SSPP">wiki</a> for more information. This is the first release of the driver and i haven't really tested it well enough. If you find any bugs or problems please report them to the <a href="http://www.tarektaha.com/research/plugins/bug_tracker/bugs.php?0.view.5.0.0" rel="external">bug tracker.</a>]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:35:12 -0500</pubDate>
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						<title>Path Planning Library</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My Path Planning library is now added to my downloads. I have been developing this library for a while and I think it reached a decent stability, therefore I decided to share it with the rest of those who might be interested. This Library uses an efficient path planning strategy that is described in one of my <a href="download.php?view.20" rel="external">papers</a> . I tried to make the documentation as clear as possible, you can either check the doxygen generated documentation that comes with the library or visit the <a href="../wiki/index.php?title=CasPathPlanner" target="_blank">wiki</a> that contains a guide about how to compile and link the library to your code. Hope you all enjoy it, please report any bugs so that I can fix it ...]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:31:44 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>MRICP driver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You can now get the MRICP driver from the download section. This is a <a href="http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/" rel="external">player/stage</a> driver that provides you with resonably accurate localization and locally consistat maps for navigation and path planning. This driver supports multiple lasers and uses the MRICP (Map Reference Iterative Closest Point) algorithm to scan match. This driver has many configuration parameters that i tried to document as much as possible but the default configurations are sufficient for many cases. Let me know if you find any bugs. Enjoy ...]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:40:54 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Black to Sydney</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After a month of travelling in between Lebanon and UAE i am back to Sydney and i will be updating the website more often. I will also add some photos from the trip soon so keep on visiting.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:31:29 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Link to the Old Website</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are asking about what happened to the old website, it's still up and running but it's no longer the root website and if you are still interested in checking it's content then here is the link : <a href="../mysite/default.aspx" rel="external">http://www.tarektaha.com/mysite/default.aspx</a> and yes i know it looked better but i haven't finish the new design for this website yet and i am sure you will like. I am gradually adding more content to this website and enchancing it but things are comming up slowly as i don't have too much spare time so please bare with me.]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 16:13:49 -0400</pubDate>
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						<title>Gallery Added</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I added the media gallery to the site and it will contain videos and images personal and related to robotics research, so if you have images or videos that you think are interesting to have on my website then send them and i will happily add them. Try to comment and rate some of those files if you have the chance. And ya, i added few game for those of you who like to procrastinate every now and then, so enjoy and try to beat my scores <img src='http://www.tarektaha.com/research/images/emotes/default/wink.png' alt='' style='vertical-align:middle; border:0' /><br />]]></description>
<author>tarek@nospam.com (Tarek Taha)</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 07:39:01 -0400</pubDate>
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