ピゴスパOne of the coolest features facebook has (which made me to deactivate my account but not to delete it completely, as I still want to be reminded of these things) is this throwback feature. Especially today on <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwbackthursday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwbackthursday</a> I was reminded about a post I did 10 years ago - can't believe it's been that long ago!<br>
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I posted it on 2am, after finishing an algorithm I worked on for a university class I had on "Real-time image processing". The idea: having objects on a conveyor band, that automatically recognizes these objects (e.g. for sorting them, or sorting out wrong objects, etc.). Our professor explained that this could be done real fast by object detection, with a camera on top and a backlight on the conveyor belt underneath the objects.<br>
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While this was supposed to be a team exercise, my entire team left me high and dry, and so I had to do this exercise alone and was busy the entire evening and night. But when it finally worked, I was so happy and excited. The solution was actually quite simple, by calculating the 0th moment of the area and comparing it with the average.<br>
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Seeing this post is however interesting to me personally for a different reason as well; seeing this I remember how satisfying programming used to be to me, and how much of my free time I put into this, without feeling like it's work. Being a professional programmer has somehow shifted this. Probably, because I've been doing the same thing for far too long now. Maybe it's time to switch the field of my profession?<br>
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