[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2018

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:10:39PM -0900, Lou Logan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, at 3:30 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> > Would there be interrest in a project to write a QR code / barcode
> > search & decode filter ?
> 
> I've personally never scanned a QR code, but maybe I'm an outlier. Seems more like an OpenCV project to me.

The idea would not be so much to use it to scan a single QR code. I was
thinking more of running it over a video or a collection of videos and scan
the whole video for QR codes, barcodes from products and so on.
The idea is for example that if a random product appears in a video, we may
have a clear enough view of its barcode or other easy machine readable identifer
and can automatically turn it into metadata. This could be quite fun
to index and search a large video collection that way. 
And it also would raise awareness of what easy parsable information people have
in their videos

OpenCV is BSD, and for basically volunteer work i want to make sure my work
and future iterations stay available to the public. BSD does not ensure this.
So i probably will not significantly contribute to BSD licensed code unless
its paid work.


> 
> While we are throwing ideas around how about a documentation project? Instead of manually (not) updating the man files like we do now, automatically create and sync the majority, or at least the available options, from the built-in documentation with the ability to manually add additional information, examples, explanations, etc. I didn't think about how to implement something like this but I think Timothy Gu (CC-ing him) may have had some thoughts if I recall correctly (which I may not).
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