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Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

13-Sep-07 3:47

send in your resume/CV and application to KOEI to be an employee.

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Mark Salsbery13-Sep-07 5:51

Mark Salsbery

13-Sep-07 5:51

El,

I swear I hear a little flamenco guitar every time I read gems like that Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

El Corazon13-Sep-07 9:43

Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

13-Sep-07 9:43

Mark Salsbery wrote:
I swear I hear a little flamenco guitar every time I read gems like that

hey, it is nothing but the truth. My work is not public access, but does generate public pictures once in a while. I am the only one who has them outside my work. If you want to get access to the goodies, join the team. It's the best way, and you earn a buck doing it too!

and I play native american flute, not guitar. Poke tongue | ;-P

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Tal Rasha's Guardianship13-Sep-07 22:35

Tal Rasha's Guardianship

13-Sep-07 22:35

American humor? Is there any other solution? I'm serious, thank you.

Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Pete O'Hanlon13-Sep-07 23:39

Pete O'Hanlon

13-Sep-07 23:39

The artwork in the application belongs to KOEI. They produce the game, and their license will be pretty tight, so we cannot help you to rip them off. Sorry, but we don't encourage this type of behaviour around here.

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Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Tal Rasha's Guardianship14-Sep-07 23:21

Tal Rasha's Guardianship

14-Sep-07 23:21

Yeah, I think you are right, but I don't want to steal these from KOEI, I just want to know how to fetch them out, from the technical point of view. It's just my interesting, you know, if I use them in business products, KOEI will trouble me. ^_^

Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Dave Kreskowiak15-Sep-07 3:14

Dave Kreskowiak

15-Sep-07 3:14

giant_hao wrote:
if I use them in business products, KOEI will trouble me.

If you use them in ANY product, KOEI will "trouble you". Actually, they'll sue the pants off you. And it's this very reason that makes it difficult to help you. If we tell you how to do this, then you go ahead and use the images anyway, we become complicit in the suit against you by KOEI. Why should we open ourselves up to that kind of liability?

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Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Jeremy Falcon25-Sep-07 8:22

Jeremy Falcon

25-Sep-07 8:22

giant_hao wrote:
It's just my interesting, you know

Then write your own program with images you create and learn to rip them that way. Glad I could help. Wink | ;)

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Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Tal Rasha's Guardianship26-Sep-07 1:37

Tal Rasha's Guardianship

26-Sep-07 1:37

OK, thanks for your mention

Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Dave Kreskowiak14-Sep-07 5:14

Dave Kreskowiak

14-Sep-07 5:14

What part of "copyrighted work" escapes your understanding?

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Re: How can I fetch resources from Uncharted Waters 4?

Pete O'Hanlon14-Sep-07 10:26

Pete O'Hanlon

14-Sep-07 10:26

He aims, he shoots, he scores. Whallop. Big Grin | :-D

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Semi automatic forground video segmentation

ptr_Electron12-Sep-07 0:23

ptr_Electron

12-Sep-07 0:23

I need sugge./ advice for video processing for bleow requirement

Person or object will be selected in the first frame of video sequence
manually by mouse. Now the selected object/persion should be segmented in
rest of the frames by the algorithm/porgram.

any souce code/algorithm/ links / suggestion are greatly appericated

Thanks in advance

->electron

Re: Semi automatic forground video segmentation

El Corazon12-Sep-07 7:01

PNG Alpha blending/channel in VC++ 6.0?

12-Sep-07 7:01

ptr_Electron wrote:
suggestion are greatly appericated

google [correlation tracking algorithm]

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StarMeteor10-Sep-07 21:00

StarMeteor

10-Sep-07 21:00

Hi All,

I am writing an application which try to show PNG file as a dialog background using GDI+
I have successfully using the PNG as background (using Graphics::DrawImage()), however, I found that the loaded PNG seems not apply the alpha channel information. What I should do?

Thanks! Big Grin | :-D

Vincent

Most common used color in an image?

mm-2k10-Sep-07 7:11

10-Sep-07 7:11

Hi,

Is there any way to get the most common used color of an image (jpg) in C#/VB? I have been searching the for "image histogram" and "image quantization", because it seams like these are the most common terms. No luck yet.

I would like something to categorize images by color.

Best regards

Carsten Petersen
Denmark

Russell^'10-Sep-07 8:06

Russell^'

10-Sep-07 8:06

mm-2k wrote:
I have been searching the for "image histogram" and "image quantization", because it seams like these are the most common terms. No luck yet.

Why? It seams really the best way ... Big Grin | :-D

You will have probally only to perform the algorithms setting thresholds..not more Unsure | :~

Russell

mm-2k10-Sep-07 8:09

10-Sep-07 8:09

Hi Russel,

Thanks for the reply.

I am searching for an example or description on how to do it, but haven't had any luck yet.

Russell^'10-Sep-07 8:44

Russell^'

10-Sep-07 8:44

a simple example for "Histogram":
* convert the image in RGB (same if HSV)
* find min and max value for R ,G ,B in all the image
* quantize (for example using 50 slices per color) the range of values in that min-max interval (for every 3 colors, so you will fix 50x50x50 cubes/volumes)
* then look to the pixel of the image and count how many time a color fall in a cube
* when finished the cube with the greater number of pixel inside is the color that you are seraching

*eleway you can analise separately R, G and B. In this way you will have 50+50+50 linear intervals, not volumes.
Smile | :)

Russell

Luc Pattyn10-Sep-07 10:11

Luc Pattyn

10-Sep-07 10:11

Can you expand on the higher purpose of this? and on the kind of pictures?

From your requirements/intentions you probably first will have to decide which is the
right color space to use (RGB, HSL, just hue, ...), then the required accuracy.

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mm-2k10-Sep-07 10:17

10-Sep-07 10:17

Hi Luc,

Thanks for the reply.

I want to use this, to categorize images (web images - only JPG/RGB) by it's color. This will be used on a e-commerce site. When a user uploads a image in the backend, i want to extract the most common used color of the current image (eg. 5-10 colors per image). These values will be stores in the database, with a reference to the image. This will allow me to make a categorizing of the images in the frontend.

If you look at this page (http://goincase.com/products/), on the right corner, you can "Browse all by color". This is what i want to achieve - automatically when images is uploaded.

Best regards

Carsten Petersen

Luc Pattyn10-Sep-07 10:52

Luc Pattyn

10-Sep-07 10:52

Hi Carsten,

I have two comments:

1.
the number of colors in the categorization is very limited and they color collection seems
to be predefined. If so, one only needs to determine in which category a picture would fit
best. One way of doing this is by calculating some "error function" for each of the
categories (say the sum over all pixels of the squared deviation between actual pixel
and category color). The main problem remaining is to determine the relevant pixels:
one has to exclude the background, and all zones that are not part of the selectable color
(display, keyboard, whatever).

2.
I am not convinced at all they did it in an automatic way; seems to me if Ipod sleeve
so and so comes in "green" and "blue" according to the manufacturer, they make sure to
have two pictures and add them to the "green" and "blue" category respectively.

Smile | :)

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mm-2k10-Sep-07 19:21

10-Sep-07 19:21

True, i want to show these colors when the image is uploaded. The user can then select one of the colors, or define one manually. This is only for guidance.

El Corazon11-Sep-07 3:36

11-Sep-07 3:36

mm-2k wrote:
Is there any way to get the most common used color of an image (jpg) in C#/VB? I have been searching the for "image histogram" and "image quantization", because it seams like these are the most common terms. No luck yet.

I am surprised, image histograms are very common. However, if you are looking for tri-color histograms as apposed to single channel (red only, blue only, etc.), that is why. You will find that in most natural images (not created artificially on a computer, or touched up), that most true color (RGB) references will have a very low count. Why? Well, to be frank, it is because in 24bit color (RGB, 8 bits each), any given single color reference is 1:16,777,216 and a given image such as 1024x768 is only 786,432 pixels. Even going up to a relatively large image size, 2921 x 2184 which is a 6megapixel image, the odds of having any given color combination more than once is very low. So doing a color histogram on the complete 24bit color value will generally produce a histogram count of 1 or 0 for all colors with the occasional exception.

If you have seen the posters that use images as tiles to reconstruct another much larger image, these are done by classifying the over-all hue of the image. A histogram and color analysis is easy on a single channel, since it is just a series of 256 values. Over a six megapixel image or even something as small as a 1024x768 image, the number of counts of any single value are easily histogrammed and classified.

Plus as mentioned above by others, you can change color-space to get other channel references. Common channel references are RGB CMYK and YUV. You simply convert color space to the appropriate system, then examine your histogram on any given channel. You can even do all three color spaces and histogram each channel to see which classifies your image best.

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