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+title: Where is my car?
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+One of my first image processing based project. It finds cars on a Google Maps view, based on their color.
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+When I started this project, I had no experience in image processing, so I tried what came to my mind. Looking backward, the sources are a real mess but I acquired my first image processing skills with it.
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+Here are the basic steps of the program:
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+1. Delete the unnecessary colors from the image
+2. Classify the image in 10 colors with the K-means algorithm
+3. Delete huge objects that can't obviously be cars
+4. Fill tiny holes
+5. Classify again
+6. Remove odd shapes
+7. Fill tiny holes again
+8. Restore original colors
+9. Delete pixels with low saturation
+10. Classify again
+11. Remove little objects
+12. Remove odd shapes
+13. Later, I decided to bind it with a Cocoa GUI.
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+TECHNOLOGIES
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+The CImg Library: a simple but powerful image processing library
+Cocoa: the framework behind every Mac application
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+SCREENSHOTS
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