Do you want to make your computer react to light, movement and gestures? Do you want to capture and process images and video as part of your project? Do you wonder: whats wrong with these lazy AI programmers, why can’t my computer recognize me yet? Get answers to all these questions and more at the Foulab Workshop “Introduction to computer vision with OpenCV”! OpenCV is an open source library for capturing and analyzing images and video. It is written in C/C++, and API’s are available in Python, Java and on Android and iOS.
The workshop is aimed at people with some programming knowledge, but not necessarily any computer vision knowledge. We will cover:
- How to install and set up the Open Computer Vision toolkit (OpenCV),
- An introduction to computer vision algorithms (including image filtering, face detection, segmentation, tracking and stereo vision),
- Code walkthrough and demonstration of OpenCV examples that you can use as starting points for your own projects.
The primary programming language for the workshop will be Python. The workshop has been updated from previous workshops to cover OpenCV 2.4.6, and the latest version of OpenCV’s python interface. The workshop presentations will be in English, but we are more than happy to provide support and answer questions in French.
Time: Sunday, February 9, 1-5pm
No space left! However, if you would like to indicate your interest in us repeating the workshop please do at the email below.
Cost: 25$ (Cash, or make arrangements in advance at the following email)
RSVP to strawdog3 (at) gmail.com required. Space is limited.
Required materials: laptop, webcam
While this workshop will be limited in scope to OpenCV itself, people are encouraged to stay after the workshop and discuss more advanced topics, such as the interfacing of openCV with other libraries and languages. If you have projects in mind or in progress, please do stick around and chat with us!
Bacteria one: Have you ever wanted to learn some biology but don’t want to sit through a whole semester of lectures? Well come on down and get hands on experience with real bio skills and learn about all sorts of interesting microbes. You’ll learn about making media/pour plates, streaking bacteria to isolate them, and how to do a gram stain to ID types of bacteria.
Cost of the workshop is $25 canadian shmeckles to cover cost of materials and to help the lab.
There will be a round table discussion (in French lang.) of the “Internet after Snowden” held at room Z-330 of Pavillon Claire-McNicoll at l’Université de Montréal on September 23, 2014 at 16:30. The session is free, but preregistration is required. Full information is here
There is a new makerspace opening up in Montreal, located not far from Foulab. They have open houses on Wed. evenings, go on down and say hello. Information can be found here.
Tuesday October 31st 2023 @ 18:30-23:00
A Halloween party? Don’t mind if we do. Come one come all for an unforgettable evening of scary high-tech stuff and exciting company of friendly neighbourhood cyberpunks.
Come dressed as hackers - or as whoever you want :)
Foulab is having it’s annual Halloween party on the 31st of October, starting at 19:00. This year, we’re doing an Orphan Black theme. That’s anything science related, bio related, conspiracy related or who needs themes anyways? Costumes, candy, and the usual Foulab Mad Science will be afoot.
As usual, a 5$ donation is encouraged to cover food and beverages. Costumes are, as always, also encouraged.
We’ll announce a mini-workshop day for costume making soon!
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