BlackBerry 10 Core Native Camera API

Native BB10 Camera API

@stevenbeeckman27 February 2013

Why?

Computer Vision

OptionsDIY: low-levelhttps://www.coursera.org/course/visionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision

OCR: Tesseract (cfr BBJam AMS)http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Computer Vision: OpenCVhttp://opencv.org/

OpenCV & Momentics

Get the OpenCV port for BlackBerry from http://github.com/blackberry/OpenCV/

Get the OpenCV build from lewellyn:http://www.greenviolet.net/~lewellyn/OpenCV-QNX.zip

touch libopencv_core.a

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Cascades-Development/OpenCV-sample-project-and-troubles/td-p/2146603/highlight/true/page/2

OpenCV & Momentics

Change your common.mk, add stuff to

EXTRA_INCVPATH (include files from BlackBerry OpenCV port)

EXTRA_LIBVPATH (point to binary lib files from lewellyn) &

LIBS

OpenCV & MomenticsAdd libopencv_core.so to your bar-descriptor.xml assets.

Build!

Run!

Open an SSH session and do ‘pidin -p HelloOpenCV mem’ and see if opencv_core.so.2.4 is loaded.

Open sourced ithttps://github.com/stevenbeeckman/

HelloOpenCV

Native C Camera API

http://developer.blackberry.com/native/reference/bb10/com.qnx.doc.camera.lib_ref/topic/overview.html

Cry because of the “not so good” documentation

Aaaaaand ACTION!

FaceFilterhttps://github.com/blackberry/Presentations/tree/master/2012-BlackBerryJam-Americas/JAM15/FaceFilter