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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: kibbles201 on June 16, 2011, 03:15:51 PM

Title: object tracking
Post by: kibbles201 on June 16, 2011, 03:15:51 PM

im looking to make a small "turret" to track humans. what would be the best and cheapest solutions? it needs to be moderatley fast (walking/jogging speed) and 150$-.

Title: Re: object tracking
Post by: mstacho on June 16, 2011, 03:29:34 PM

get a microsoft kinect.  there is a huge open source community that handles all of the kinect-based 3D vision stuff.  find the human.  track the human.  Hopefully not kill the human :-P

what's the turret for?  the kinect won't work at extremely long ranges, though.  say only 15 feet.  Is that good enough?  Otherwise use openCV and some good cameras, but that's harder.

MIKE

Title: Re: object tracking
Post by: kibbles201 on June 16, 2011, 09:11:43 PM

i was thinking about getting cmucam3 and combinding that with a pyroelectic/motion sensor so i can filter living things out from plain old objects (sounds kind of evil lol)

Title: Re: object tracking
Post by: kibbles201 on June 16, 2011, 09:12:55 PM

the kinect soounds like a try though because it looks like it would work well