INTRODUCTION

We will use this blog to explain the development on our graduation project.

Our project is about image processing that based on detecting the number of open fingers of a hand. Image processing is a common topic, this concept is taking more attentions day by day. As the applications areas of image processing are getting wider, a lot of tools to make this process easier are being developed by companies. Matlab, Simulink and Open CV can be given as examples to the software that simplifies image processing. By these programs development of image processing projects on computer is very simple nowadays. But the necessity of this concept on independent systems like robots, exposed different developments on hardware systems. For this purpose big hardware companies started to spend a lot of money on research and development of different boards which have special attributes about image and video processing. But working with these systems are not as easy as using Matlab and Simulink for such kind of projects.

As this software is easy to use, we first tried to make our project work on the computer. We worked with Simulink and achieved to count the open fingers from a video that we recorded. In the next post we will try to explain the Simulink blocks that we use for this process. Also a few figures of the results of testing can be seen.

After that we will mention about the choice of the embedded system. We work on DaVinci that manufactured by Texas Instruments. Some specialties of the board can be read. After that we explained the steps that we followed to use that board, difficulties that we encountered, algorithms, written programs and test results.