On Windows:

• Get VS 2012 Express from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=34673 (OpenCV does not support VS 2013 yet)
  • Settings: "Replace tabs by spaces"
  • Create your own Makefile for other toolchains

SmartVideo app (Windows):

• Setup OpenCV 2.47, 64 bit
  • On Windows: Close Visual Studio first!
  • Follow these four steps:
    1. Download version 2.47 from http://opencv.org/downloads.html
    2. Make sure you have admin rights. Unpack the self-extracting archive.
    3. Set the OPENCV_DIR system variable:
       • setx /M OPENCV_DIR "open-cv-install-path\build\x64\vc11"
    4. Add the OpenCV library folder to your system PATH:
       • setx /M PATH "%PATH%;%OPENCV_DIR%bin"
• Run SmartVideo/smart-video-2013.sln (make sure that you have VS 2012)
• Should work

Viewer:

• Run viewer by just executing: viewer/index.html
• Chrome:
  • Allow Chrome to read local files from files (in order to run the viewer without a web server)
    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18586921/how-to-launch-html-using-chrome-at-allow-file-access-from-files-mode
    • Apparently, there is a bug - So you might have to add both "--allow-file-access-from-files -allow-file-access-from-files" to start Chrome
• IE & Firefox:
  • Sometimes work, sometimes don't
  • IE might need some changes in your security settings
• Enable debug console while developing:
  • Ctrl + Shift + J in Chrome
  • F12 in IE

Data:

• The data directory is defined in "cfg/config.json"
• Data set configurations are defined in "cfg/clips.json" (currently only supports image sequences, gotta fix that)
• Setup:
  • Download data sets from:
    • http://wordpress-jodoin.dmi.usherb.ca/static/dataset/dataset.zip
    • ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/vis/vis-out/bse/dataset/SABS-Basic.rar
      • Alternative link: http://burnbit.com/torrent/235660/SABS_Basic_rar
  • Extract to some folder data-root
    • I placed it in: ../data/
    • If you have different folder, update "cfg/config.json" correspondingly
  • If you want to add more data sets:
    1. Also extract them into that folder
    2. Run "ls > cfg/dataset-name.txt" (a list of all image file names that comprise the video)
    3. Add entry to cfg/clips.json

Coding Conventions

• Indentation
  • Replace tabs with 4 spaces
• Avoid raw pointers in C++
  • When to use what kind of pointer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8376611/2228771
  • Ideas on avoiding pointers and why: http://blog.emptycrate.com/node/354

TODO

• a lot more...