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Skip to content [#main] It-Jim Menu COMPANY About Us Careers News Meet Us EXPERTISE Computer Vision Image Processing Machine Learning Signal Processing Augmented and Mixed Reality EDUCATION Trainee Program Applied computer vision course PORTFOLIO RESEARCH R&D blog Publications CONTACT US C++ You are here: It-Jim > C++ A C++ Mini-Tutorial on MediaPipe As we already explained, MediaPipe is a C++ pipeline library. It is very poorly documented, basically, the only documentation is the comments and docstrings in the MP source code. There are also examples, but they are not very readable. There is only one trivial “hello world” example, the rest is deep learning, which is counterproductive for learning basic MP concepts. Moreover, these examples are artificially obscured by things like GLog and GFlags. The Bizarre Google World: Bazel, ProtoBuf, and More It was not easy at all to master MediaPipe. We thought little in C++ could surprise us. MP did. They say Google libraries do not work outside of Google. We can confirm this is the truth. The ways Google uses the C++ language are highly unusual from our point of view. Normally (at least where we come from) people use CMake, a nice cross-platform build system, for C++ projects. Down the Rabbit Hole: Our Journey to the Land of MediaPipe and Other Google Technologies In the ML/DL community you can often hear ”Nowadays you must know Google MediaPipe”, “It’s a cool framework”, and sometimes “It’s internally used by YouTube!” Videos with various computer vision tasks like this hand tracking often appear on LinkedIn and forums with the comment “This is MediaPipe”! At this point, we decided we could not ignore it anymore. Binary Marker Recognition on Raspberry Fiducial markers are widely used in various applications like robot navigation, logistics, augmented reality. Fig. 1. Applications of fiducial markers Advantages are obvious High contrast Simple code generation Resistance to extremal angles However, when we deal with a large number of markers, real-time recognition becomes challenging, especially on embedded devices with low power CPUs on-board. Indoor Positioning Engine Indoor positioning systems are becoming popular nowadays. Indeed, there is plenty of opportunities for real-time user navigation in GPS-denied environments. An interesting use cases are as follows: Fig. 1. Indoor navigation use cases There are several options for hardware (see It-Jim blog post). We have developed the positioning algorithm based on cheap Bluetooth beacons and built-in IMU sensors on mobile device. Road Detector Our task was to develop the algorithm for the automatic road detection in radar images. The challenge was that the radar images are a bit different from the optical ones. In particular, in the case of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the image formation process is accomplished via coherent processing of the received signals backscattered from the Earth surface. As a result, the multiplicative speckle noise appears in the SAR images. Computer vision solutions for your business Menu Home Expertise Portfolio Research Blog Careers Sitemap Contact us Location Kharkiv, Ukraine Sheridan, WY, USA Contacts ceo@it-jim.com Follow Us Copyright © 2021 It-Jim.