Tracking Software

asked 2017-04-24 15:22:54 -0600

BKnight gravatar image

I'm fearly new here and I hope this is a good place to ask this.

I'm a researcher in physics and would like a software for tracking distinct features on a video made in the lab. In detail: We record the video of an oscilator with a red marker for it's tip position. It would be nice to get the choordinates of the position of that dot in Image space. With that, and a few other reference markers, we would be able to measure everything from our set up.

So, I'm looking for an "easy to use" software that can track red dots and output theirs chordinates in video space in a form I can manipulate (txt or even clipboard).

Thanks

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OpenCV is a computer vision library. Maybe (certainly?) it exists already software doing that, I don't know.

If you want to use OpenCV, you will have to code it yourself:

  • if the marker is the only red object (each marker has a distinct and unique color in the image) it should be quite easy
  • you can use a color HSV segmentation, etc.
  • you can find here the OpenCV 3.2 documentation
  • there are tutorials in C++ and in Python
Eduardo gravatar imageEduardo ( 2017-04-25 03:52:55 -0600 )edit
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