I may have forgotten to mention it, but my expertise is not in image processing.  The people who know better will likely tsk mightily at this and upcoming posts. My apologies. =) Last time got me a b&w-converted version of a picture, but didn...

First thought – convert the picture to greyscale and increase the contrast to help any kind of edge-detection work.  Some searching found me Bob Powell's handy guide to increasing contrast and converting to grayscale via ColorMatrix.  With Wikipedia...

I got this silly idea in my head last week that I’d take my brand-new high-def handheld video camera and use it to produce a catalog of books, DVDs, etc. that are lying around the house.  Simple premise – turn on the camera and wave games, DVDs,...