How about an OSD module with Object tracking? Unfortunately there is no open source product so far.
Long Ago Chris introduced us with ADEPT 3000 (Specs Sheet)
(http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ges-new-adept-3000-miniature)
a miniature video tracker for mini UAV's from a defense product manufacturer GE
Here is a video providing a closer look to product and apparently manufacturer has plans to introduce it in commercial market ( If i got it right )
Check its video here
http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/GE-Miniaturizes-Video-Tracking
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@Shaw Innes Wow ... 13000$ ????? Lets hope if China could provide its 130$ clone ...
The ADEPT 3000 looks interesting. I made some enquiries today and in Australia the development kit goes for around $13,000. It's a little out of my budget, that's for sure :)
How About GUMSTIX you can run openCV
http://www.e-consystems.com/NTSC-PAL-Video-Decoder-Board-Gumstix.asp
I think open source community already have something similar but not in one piece
CMUCAM4 (but more processing more library support is required) + Arduino Video Experimenter or some open source OSD should do the job, Again some hardware integrator is required
CMUCAM4
http://www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam4
Video Experimenter
https://nootropicdesign.com/ve/
APM OSD
http://store.3drobotics.com/products/apm-minimosd-rev-1-1
I think where we will see this reach us ( hobbyists ) first is from the automotive industry
@Gary McCray ADEPT 3000 takes Analogue input and process it in real time This is something unique that means I can use any camera which provide Video Out e.g Gopro etc , But in case of Parallela I would be limited to some special Camera modules like we do in Beaglebone world
I pray your words become reality soon and similar capability product appear at kickstarter before the end of this year
:D
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From looking at the video, it's clear that GE's primary emphasis is on the very lucrative military market and that the only way this is likely to become an affordable hobby market item is if somebody else produces a competitive product for it.
That said, given current state of the art and the Canberra post immediately preceding this post and a recent Russian post showing similar tracking ability from an "apparently" home brewed effort, my guess is that a similar level of capability might be put together in an open source product this year or by sometime next year at the latest.
The Parallella open source Kickstarter project Blogged previously here could be a great candidate for this kind of capability.
I think over the next couple of years image processing for a lot of uses is going to become very important, certainly for localization, pathfinding, and 3D mapping.
My guess is that GE may end up behind the curve, not in front of it.
@Josh Potter Software is simply no problem, it is actually the Hardware, But not that fancy all it needs is another kickstarter project
That video was very impressive. Since I'm not an EE, can some tell me what's the challenge behind creating something that does this? Is it fancy hardware? Complex code?
http://www.intorobotics.com/how-to-detect-and-track-object-with-ope...