GSoC_2019

Project page for ViSP Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC 2019)

Date	Main events
February 6	Mentoring organization application deadline
February 26	List of accepted mentoring organizations published
March 25	Student application period opens
Mai 6	Accepted student proposals announced
May 27	Coding officially begins
Work Period	Students work on their project with guidance from Mentors
June 24	Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 1 evaluations
June 28	Phase 1 Evaluation deadline
Work Period	Students work on their project with guidance from Mentors
July 22	Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 2 evaluations
July 26	Phase 2 Evaluation deadline
Work Period	Students continue working on their project with guidance from Mentors
August 19	Final week: students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation
August 26	Mentors submit final student evaluations
September 3	Final results of Google Summer of Code 2019 announced

Student projects to be paid only if:

1st phase (May 27 - June 24, 2019): The student submits a pull request that...
- Builds, works with build bot (travis-ci)
- Has, at least, stubbed out new functionality
2nd phase (June 28 - July 22, 2019): The student submits a pull request with...
- Same as above, plus:
- Code has appropriate Doxygen documentation
- Has a stubbed out example/tutorial that builds/runs without errors
- It observes the recommendations in "How to contribute", which include C++ style suggestions.
Final phase (July 26 - August 26, 2018):
- A full pull request
  - Fulfilling all required objectives described in the corresponding project
  - Full Doxygen documentation
  - A tutorial if appropriate
  - A working example or demo
- Create a video (e.g. on YouTube) that demonstrates your results

For software development skills, please refer to the project description
Take your time to learn about ViSP, watching some YouTube videos, reading tutorials, downloading it and launching tutorials or example.
Ask to join the ViSP GSoC 2019 Forum List
- Discuss projects below or other ideas with us between now and April 9
ViSP team propose a set of enhancements that correspond to small projects that students can contribute to. Contributing to ViSP through these small projects is a good way for mentors to evaluate the student skills and motivation
Between end of March and April 9, go to the GSoC site and sign up to be a student with ViSP
Post the title of the project (from the list below or a new one if we have agreed) on the mailing list [email protected]
- Include name, email, age
- Include how you think you are qualified to accomplish this project (skills, courses, relevant background)
- Include country of origin, school you are enrolled in, Professor you work with (if any)
- Include a projected timeline and milestones for the project
- Precise which 3rd party libraries you plan to use
If ViSP gets accepted as GSoC organisation this year and you’ve signed up for a project with us in Mai
- We will dispatch the students and projects to the appropriate mentors
- Accepted students will be posted on the GSoC site in May (and we will also notify the accepted students ourselves).

List of potential mentors (pairing of projects to mentors will be done when Google decides the number of slots assigned to ViSP):

Brief description:
- ViSP is already packaged for iOS. Community is asking a version for Android
- Last year GSoC 2017 allow us to start porting ViSP to android.
- The objective of this project is to continue porting ViSP to Android in order to propose to the community a more complete SDK for Android and new tutorials for beginners.
Getting started: Since ViSP architecture is very similar to the one adopted by OpenCV, student interested by this project could
- Follow all the tutorials proposed by OpenCV in order to become familiar with Android and the tools
- Understand how OpenCV Android SDK is build from the source code using an Android toolchain
- Understand and identify which part of ViSP was ported to Android reading the dedicated GSoC 2018 wiki page
- Follow ViSP for java tutorial
- Follow ViSP for Andoid tutorial
Expected results:
- To develop...
Application instructions: Student should precise which device is used for the development and which Android version it is running.
Knowledge prerequisites: C++, Android studio, Android NDK
Difficulty level: High since ViSP developpers are not familiar with Android development yet.

Brief description:
- The markerless model-based tracker (see tutorial) uses our home-made CAD model file format (.cao) to describe the object to track (see examples). Only simple primitives, which correspond to object visible contours, can be tracked (lines, circles, cylinders). Currently, this means that the creation of this home-made file has to be made by hand. This is a big drawback as most of the time the 3D model of the object to track comes from a CAD software, modeled by complex meshes (.obj, .stl).
- In GSoC 2017 wa were able to develop a minimalistic Blender plugin to edit and convert from classical 3D file format (for example .obj) to our home-made CAD model file format. We designed also a very simple CAD model viewer based on Qt.
- The goal of this project is to extend the capabilities of the Blender viewer and of the CAD model viewer
Getting started:
- Start with Markerless generic model-based tracking using a stereo camera tutorial
- Continue with Markerless model-based tracker CAD model editor - GSoC 2017 project tutorial and understand what was done by the student
- In http://visp-doc.inria.fr/download/mbt-model/ we provide the material (.obj, .cao, .xml, .init) and videos to test the tracker on CubeSAT satellite or mmicro object (see model-based tracker use-case).
Expected results:
- To develop...
Knowledge prerequisites: C++, Python, Qt, Blender
Difficulty level: Middle