Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread Ska Frenz
Hi, thank you for the suggestions, I'll check openCv. Can you explain how to use morphological filters to clear up the noise in the image? Are there examples around? Also, could you please explain me better what do you mean with adaptive background subtraction method? Thank you for your time :)

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread John Harrison
I'm not totally clear on the big picture here but it could be you might save yourself a lot of time and effort doing your blob tracking with Community Core Vision (CCV) then sending the blob data to Pd through OSC. After initially doing my blob tracking in Pd only (which did work), I switched to

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread Antoine Villeret
morphological filters affect the shape they mostly work on binary images the most common are erode, dilate, close and open algorithm with which you can make a pepper or salt removing filter to remove black or white isolated pixels concerning background subtraction, if you use a fixed background

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread Antoine Villeret
i tried CCV one time but i had some driver and performance issues moreover, i can't find an easy way to tune the processing chain pd is more flexible but, i agree, could be harder -- do it yourself http://antoine.villeret.free.fr 2013/4/18 John Harrison john.harri...@alum.mit.edu I'm not

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread John Harrison
FWIW I had just the opposite experience with CCV. CCV has built-in background adaptive subtraction, smoothing, highpass filter, gain, contrast, etc. all tweakable. It also tracks blobs uniquely as the original poster is wanting, which is why I thought of it for their needs. I used

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread Antoine Villeret
how is it possible to use several cameras, correct perspective on each, make a big picture with blending and then tracking on that big picture with CCV ? this have been done with Pd and pix_opencv and works great (at least if you're not using a cheap V4L2 cam with buggy drivers) -- do it yourself

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread John Harrison
OK I guess I misunderstood that the original poster was wanting to do all of that. I know the latest CCV supports multiple cameras for some sort of big picture so it may actually do what you are asking but I don't know the details so if you say it doesn't support all of that I'll go with your

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-18 Thread Antoine Villeret
concerning the multiple cameras and so on, this was just my need and why i'm not using CCV but be sure that i have nothing against CCV, it could be very useful in lots of context :-) regarding driver, as i remember, i had issue with IIDC cameras but this was few years ago and by cheap i refer to

[PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-17 Thread Ska Frenz
Hi everyone, this is my first time on the pd-list so I hope I won't do anything wrong. I'm writing here to get some help about pd tracking objects (pix_blob..). I'm using the background subtraction method, to track objects and I need help to understand how I can track multiple objects with

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-17 Thread Antoine Villeret
hi, the segmentation method (how you extract what is your interest from the rest of the image) is very critical in video tracking background subtraction is a basic way to extract blob and it works only in certain conditions of light (if you want to track something outdoor, you should use an

Re: [PD] pix_multiblob and tracking multiple objects

2013-04-17 Thread IOhannes zmölnig
On 04/17/2013 09:59 PM, Ska Frenz wrote: Hi everyone, this is my first time on the pd-list so I hope I won't do anything wrong. I'm writing here to get some help about pd tracking objects (pix_blob..). I'm using the background subtraction method, to track objects and I need help to understand