Chapter 5. Moving Pictures
After completing this chapter, you will:
Understand how programs can detect movement in video images
Appreciate the effects of noise on video signals and how this can be dealt with
Play alarm sounds from programs on your Windows PC
Create a program that can take and store photographs when movement is detected
Detecting Movement in Video Images
ONE POSSIBLE USE FOR THE Microsoft Kinect camera would be as a movement-sensitive camera; in other words, any movement in the area viewed by the camera would trigger a photograph. This could be extended to create a motion-sensitive burglar alarm. To get this to work, a program will have to analyze video images and detect changes to the picture being received from the Kinect camera. The ...
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