beatussum/pmsexp

A software for recovering the position of an object in a video

PMSExp

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Table of contents

• What is PMSExp?
• Why PMSExp (Parking Monitoring System Experiment)?
• How to use PMSExp?
• Licenses
• Installing and building

What is PMSExp?

PMSExp is a free software (licensed under GPL-3 or any later version) allowing to automate video pointing of an object.

In particular, it allows to recover the follwing informations:

• the heading of the object (the front of the object being determined by its shape) over time;
• its coordinates over time.

To work, it depends on the following libraries:

• Qt for the user interface;
• OpenCV for the video processing;
• QCustomPlot for displaying data in graphs.

Why PMSExp (Parking Monitoring System Experiment)?

Initially, the development of this software was started as part of the development of another project. In fact, as a C.P.G.E. student, I had to do a T.I.P.E. like all the other French student in this field. Given the P.T. pathway I was in, my T.I.P.E. had to consist of a technical system.

My first choice was a robot to control the parking time of vehicles in a private parking lot. So, I started writing the Arduino program to be loaded into the board, and named it P.M.S. or Parking Monitoring System (very slightly pompous, but the meaning comes through a little).

However, the idea of having a vehicle the size of a miniature car, circulating in a parking lot (and therefore very likely to be run over or vandalized), did not meet with unanimous approval among my teachers. Knowing, moreover, that an ordinary automaton armed with a lice would do just as well (if not better). So, I transformed my robot into a robot vacuum cleaner, while keeping the program's name for historical reasons, so to speak…

At the end of my project, I had to test the validity of my system (did it follow the path I asked it to follow?). To do this, I needed a way of retrieving my robot's position over time from a video file. So, I started developing PMSExp (I just had to suffix "Experiment" to the name of the parent project).

Eventually, finding the project interesting, I decided to continue its development on a standalone basis.

I'm now realizing that it took me a lot of lines to explain the simple and sad truth: the name of this project really doesn't make any sense…

How to use PMSExp?

Please read the corresponding file.

Licenses

As explained above, the code of this software is licensed under GPL-3 or any later version. Details of the rights applying to the various third-party files are described in the copyright file in the Debian debian/copyright file format.

Installing and building

Please, see the corresponding wiki page.

pmsexp's Issues

Add an application setting window

Before releasing the version 1.0, PMSExp has to include an application setting window.

Reformat code

Before releasing the version 1.0, PMSExp has to contains the following changes:

• Update coding style. Indeed, Qt classes and structs use Camel case and currently PMSExp prefers to use Snake case. Therefore, both conventions are present in the current code which should be avoided.
• Rename gui::widgets::pages to gui::pages.
• Restructure gui::widgets::ButtonSelecterWidget, gui::widgets::ListSelecterWidget and gui::widgets::SelecterWidget.

Add i18n support for the Windows installer

Before releasing the version 1.0, the PMSExp Windows installer have to support internationalization.

Add a binary image generation page

Before releasing the version 1.0, PMSExp has to include a binary image generation page. This new page will provide a way for the user to choose how to generate the binary image. It will be placed just after the Upload page.