Hi,
I have little experience with OPENCV, but have always been intrigued by it. In the hopes of avoiding any pitfalls, I would like the input of experienced users before I start learning/hacking.
My Problem... Imagine a camera on a platform that can rotate in azimuth only. The initial conditions will have the camera pointed at a uniform background with a target object filling the majority of the field of view. The wall/background and object will not move. The camera will have random rotations applied by rotating the table. I am attempting to use image processing to determine the rate of rotation from frame to frame.
I assume if my background and object don't change contrast or shape rapidly (and range is constant), I don't need any sophisticated object tracking algorithm. I plan to perform a phase correlation between two sequential images to get the quantity of pixels shifted. If range and frame rate are constant, I should be able to calculate a rotational rate from this stream of pixel shifts. Eventually I would implement this algorithm with hardware acceleration(FPGA/Zynq) and use this derived rate as feedback to a control system, so the target wouldn't move too far from the center of the image in the final system.
My Questions... Is phase correlation a good approach? Is there maybe a better way to get the pixel shift as I rotate the camera? Before going to hardware, I would like to prototype as much as possible on a PC. To perform this sort of task on a 640x512 image would I be able to do this with the processor @ 60-100 Hz, or will I need to incorporate a GPU to get to those speeds?
Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.