The Game Player Project

I've decided my C and C++ skills really need to be improved since more and more of my work appears to depend on them. So in order to improve them I've decided to take on a project in my spare time that covers both programming in C and C++, OpenCV, Java and JNI. These are all pretty useful tools to use together so hopefully these entries will be of help to others as well.

The project is going to be called 'Game Player' and the aim is to develop an automated system, based on computer vision techniques, that can be used to play games. I make a point of emphasising the computer vision techniques part because there are already lots of automated game players out there that use data held in the computer's memory to play games and that's not what I'm looking to do. I want to build a system that can play a game based purely on what it can 'see' in front of it, the same a regular player does.

This is where it began...

Years from now, when I'm a computer vision master, I'm going to look back at this post and think "Wow, this post was pretty pointless."