[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Packages for computer vision, robotics, and FRP plus demo video of haskell-controlled robot

[Noam Lewis]

I'm pleased to announce the first public release, and a new version (still
in "alpha" stage) of the following packages on hackage:


   - cv-combinators <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cv-combinators>:
   Functional Combinators for Computer Vision (currently mostly a high level
   functional wrapper for HOpenCV)
      - Includes, among others, high-level code to get images from a webcam,
      detect faces, and show results in a window.
      - HOpenCV <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HOpenCV>: Low-level
   bindings for the OpenCV computer vision library (for now, quite minimal but
   includes among others haar detection that can be used for face detection)
   - allocated-processor<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/allocated-processor>:
   Functional combinators for monadic actions that require allocation and
   de-allocation, and (building on that) a basic FRP framework that includes a
   generalized operator for expressing strictly causal systems
   - RMP <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/RMP>: Binding to code that
   controls a Segway RMP.


Both RMP and cv-combinators include demo programs (under /src). Reading the
code is highly recommended for people who are interested in using the
packages.

The demo program in the RMP package was used to control the robot in the
following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZblWWxeLsY&feature=player_embedded


More information can be found at:
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~noamle/ <http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/%7Enoamle/>

Enjoy,
Noam Lewis
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