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Re: jerky motion (tosiara) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 18:02:24 +0300 From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] some comments on motion detection Message-ID: <CACHTdwQCT9Y1BY0wimfcY95M=vCaqeoiZ5t80FSQtU0QE=i...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Some of your concens may be addressed as soon as MrDave is back to development: https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/issues/941 With motion detection moved into a library with API, you will be able to "plug" better detector, either physical PIR or software AI On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:16 AM Graham Toal <gt...@gtoal.com> wrote: > > Hi - I've been using motion on raspberry pies for a few years now. > > I have some thoughts I'ld like to pass on. Motion's detection has too many > false positives for my liking, and the offered solutions haven't ever really > fixed it for me. So... > > 1) perhaps a tweak to the algorithm, so that changed pixels which also change > hue are weighted more strongly than changes in intensity, so that increases > or decreases in light level don't register as strongly as an object moving > over the display (which with colour cameras usually causes a change in pixel > colour as well as intensity - not so true at night or in IR mode, but then > the current algorithm would work as a fallback) > > (I know the downside of this is that someone could walk over a green lawn in > green camo, but I'm not suggesting using hue changes *only* - just giving > them a heavier weighting) > > 2) after detecting motion, the video could then be run through an external > program supplied by the user which implements a user-written algorithm that > returns motion/no-motion and allows the system to cancel that detection and > do nothing further with the video. (This can be done to some extent with the > existing script hooks but maybe not as cleanly) > > 3) Could there be a mechanism to add some external trigger to supplement the > motion detection, eg a PIR sensor or radar sensor - and have motion handle > the video only if it detects motion in the video *and* the external trigger > also has detected motion? (and some users might want the option of "OR" > rather than "AND" depending on their tolerance of false positives) > > just passing thoughts to consider some day... > > regards > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > Motion-user mailing list > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user > https://motion-project.github.io/ > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 09:40:26 -0600 From: somebody <for...@n0sq.tech> To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Motion-user] jerky motion Message-ID: <a73b0a4f-47e7-6af9-f5f7-040543047...@n0sq.tech> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I'm using motion (Version 4.2) with a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920. I have not been able to get rid of the jerky and distorted motion. The video is smooth when using the webcam with Skype. Any suggestions? Ubuntu 18.04.2 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 23:17:31 +0300 From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] jerky motion Message-ID: <CACHTdwSxbm=iz5kMW3W7rtf7wEU7SdhzN7JtPGqSWqkqGj8V=a...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Can you record sample motion video and save motion log with -d 7? On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 18:57 somebody <for...@n0sq.tech> wrote: > I'm using motion (Version 4.2) with a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920. I > have not been able to get rid of the jerky and distorted motion. The > video is smooth when using the webcam with Skype. Any suggestions? > > Ubuntu 18.04.2 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Motion-user mailing list > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user > https://motion-project.github.io/ > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Motion-user mailing list Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user ------------------------------ End of Motion-user Digest, Vol 156, Issue 15 ********************************************