NeverDie
Senior Member
It seems like there's a lot of very powerful free open source video analytics software out there, like OpenCV for example. Has anyone here tried OpenCV, or something of at least equivalent strength? At least during the daytime, is there still nothing useful in that category that would sort this? Most of these youtube videos look real world. Are they not? i.e. Are they the real deal, or are these youtube videos (below) just selective edits of the few times it happens to be working as it should? For instance, I don't see much shadowing in these videos, so perhaps that real world element fouls things up?
As discussed in another thread on cocoontech (http://cocoontech.com/forums/topic/26642-diy-gasket-material-for-outdoor-video-cam/?p=214718), I have a 3MP outdoor videcam on order. It will even be much more compact and less conspicuous than the patheticly larage Visonic Opto-Quad tower above. It can allegedly record 3MP video at 20fps or 1080 at 30fps. This stuff is getting cheaper and cheaper while getting better and better all the time. Seems like there should be a way to leverage it for the comparatively modest purposes of the original post on this thread.
At least with a video image, it should be a lot easier to mask off (in software) areas you want to exclude, unlike PIR's where the masking is physical and comparatively primitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaL58GRou4
As discussed in another thread on cocoontech (http://cocoontech.com/forums/topic/26642-diy-gasket-material-for-outdoor-video-cam/?p=214718), I have a 3MP outdoor videcam on order. It will even be much more compact and less conspicuous than the patheticly larage Visonic Opto-Quad tower above. It can allegedly record 3MP video at 20fps or 1080 at 30fps. This stuff is getting cheaper and cheaper while getting better and better all the time. Seems like there should be a way to leverage it for the comparatively modest purposes of the original post on this thread.
At least with a video image, it should be a lot easier to mask off (in software) areas you want to exclude, unlike PIR's where the masking is physical and comparatively primitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaL58GRou4