ParallaxEdu2015-Ex2

This repository contains second exercise and its solution for Parallax Education Day 2015. In addition, it also consists of a test program to test your environment setup. The details are given below.

Requirements

1. An x86_64 CPU
2. Preferably a Linux OS
3. Docker
4. A programming editor

Environment Setup

The exercise uses

1. OpenCV
2. Git, and
3. GCC with C++11 support

Setup without docker (on Ubuntu)

If this works for you, you can also run the exercise without docker :)

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential pocl-opencl-icd clinfo cmake git opencl-headers ocl-icd-opencl-dev libopencv*-dev

Setup using docker

You can install these components independently on your own, or use a docker image which has all the necessary components included. The following steps assumes that you are using the docker image.

• To use the docker image, Docker needs to be installed. Start docker using terminal in linux based systems or boot2docker in non-linux based systems. When running boot2docker, a terminal window pops up.

• To run the exercise you need to bind a directory to your docker container. You should preferably make a new directory, enter it and start your docker container.

• If things does not work, try first to use sudo :P

$ cd $HOME
$ mkdir parallax_education_day
$ cd parallax_education_day
$ docker run -ti --rm -v $PWD:/source wictory/parallax_edu git clone https://github.com/wictory/ParallaxEdu2015-Ex2.git
$ cd ParallaxEdu2015-Ex2
$ ./compile_capture_show.sh # Compile capture_show.cpp
$ ./run_capture_show_webcam.sh # Run the program using the webcam (only works on Linux)
$ ./download_video.sh # Download a video if you can't run with webcam
$ ./run_capture_show.sh # Run the program without webcam