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"track" image on video camera.

Posted by reinaldo watanabe on October 7, 2010 at 4:09pm

Hi!

I want to "track" something (vehicle or people in motion) in video camera (ex: webcan).
I was thinking in make a interface in C++ ou VB.net where the video camera image show me a image. When I "track (some like a square)" on my target in a image video camera, the square following the target. Look like a FLIR System when designated something.

Somebody can I help me? Where can I begin to do that?!

Thanks a lot in advance, this forum really help me!

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Seth March 23, 2011 at 11:52pm

Kestrel is PFM, absolutely PFM.
Peterstagg February 5, 2011 at 4:11am

There is a company is Australia that does this.

It's military grade stuff but I guess this is kind of what you want?
Brad Smith January 28, 2011 at 12:03pm

Hi have you seen this software http://www.roborealm.com/ i have the older free version might be what your lookin for

this could send commands back to your bot from your laptop with xbee and control pan&tilt or yaw ,,well thats my plan anyhoo

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Jeff January 23, 2011 at 9:44pm

If you find any good resources please post its a really interesting topic! For the more advanced users, would this be capable with a ATMega based system or would it be over its limits?

Possibly this could help haven't dove too deep into it yet but it might have some good info.

http://www.societyofrobots.com/programming_computer_vision_tutorial...

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Ravi Gaddipati October 7, 2010 at 8:08pm

OpenCV. Has tracking functions built in.

If your looking to track something like a person, that is way more complicated. Look up optical flow.
reinaldo watanabe October 7, 2010 at 7:44pm

Thanks for helping guys!

I was searching in internet and find www.processing.org
Is a good way to begin?
Jimmy P. October 7, 2010 at 6:22pm

Try looking into "quantitative imaging" - you can use MatLab (among other tools) to do this, but it generally requires a pretty large amount of processing power (i.e. an additional processor apart from the Arduino Mega)
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John Church October 7, 2010 at 5:37pm

You've got some reading/studying to do. All of the info you need is out there. If you're not willing to write it all yourself, check out RoboRealm, the Intel video library or M$'s robot framework.
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Sgt Ric October 7, 2010 at 5:22pm

Sorta like this?

Not a newbie project, thats for sure!