COLOR OR MOTION TRACKING USING WEBCAM

This study implements a prototype of a motion and color tracking system using webcam. It involves topics on robotics hardware, image processing algorithms and object oriented programming environments such as C# and .NET. The hardware microprocessor was programmed using a C-like language based on CCS Compiler from Microchip Company. All image processing or hardware controls in this project are programmed in a low level manipulation of data which includes pointers. This project only covers a basic implementation of its main goal which is tracking objects. It is highly dependent on the hardware used and calibration and measurements of the system may vary from hardware to hardware.

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