Motion Tracking Demo Windows, Unix, Raspberry Pi using Python, openCV, webcam/pi-camera

Watch for our black and tan chihuahua in the first part of the video get tracked for motion. Hard to see , but the camera found her.

It will detect motion in the field of view and use opencv to compare images and calculate a threshold image and related contours. It will then determine the largest contour and return its x, y coordinates in real time. Note this program is for demonstration purposes only.

I will be using similar code for a simple RPI robotics project, but thought this demo code would be useful for other users as a starting point or part of an existing project.

I did quite a bit of searching on the internet, github, etc, but could not find a similar implementation that returns x,y coordinates of the most dominate moving object in the frame although some came close

Prerequisites
Requires a Raspberry Pi, windows or unix computer running an up-to-date python version and a Web or RPI camera module installed and configured. See Github repo for more details.

Good Luck Claude ...

[izawolf]

Hi Claude, just noticed your video. You did well. I built a surveillance system for my house but ran out of time to stick in the fancy bits. I have everything on motioneyeos and it works perfectly. I finished my MSc project, and it was a lot of fun even though my health was poor. I'm interested in quantum computing and building satellites. I know what you are going to say about the expense of building even a wee box type. I'll be doing something interesting this winter. Let me know what you are up to.

[bassluke]

It was really that easy. Thank you very much.

[DavidHaile_profile]

Fantastic! I'm an embedded software engineer and purchased a Pi 3 a few weeks ago and have OpenCV installed. Just wondering what to do with it that would be fun.

[austinlengvenis]

Almost done installing OpenCV3 onto a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B, it has been a very long install (sudo make).

I am on a project that includes tracking a person left, right, up and down (half hemisphere). The end goal is for it to be a light following one person in an area(max distance of 15 ft).

I am hoping your code may help.
Thanks!

[gyakoboandy]

Hello. When ever I'm trying to run the program -"motion3-track.py", it usually gives me an error message - "line 129, in_control_callback" "Received unexpected camera control callback event, 0x%08x" % buf [0].cmd". Please help me!!!😢

[zakariarada]

yeah that what i was looking for i'd like to use it in my project this semester : i will be happy if i get some help from you sir :)

[gyakoboandy]

Hello, may you please tell what camera are you using for the raspberry pi?

[AppHackrPr]

hey can you please help me, i am using an RPi 3 with both python 2.7 and 3 installed for opencv. I keep getting an error that Window system doesn't support OpenGL and i have tried sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri without any luck aswell as following the instructions from the RPi website. Do you know how i can get it to work?

[syedumaidahmed]

I need this green circle to be extended to rectangle with greater size

[shortandeasytutorials]

May I know the algorithm you used for this?
I want an algorithm explanation

[RouslanReslan]

Hello Mr.Claude Great video ! you explain lots of things and information, however I'm new to rass pi and python building a project using pretty much the same concept with slight modifications, and i'm stuck now, can you help me to overcome them ? your have great experience it would be great if i get some hints from you Mr

[alifqadri]

hi sir..

how to play the video? I mean how to show up the terminal that show the live video..
Thank you sir for your help

[ziyedhamrouni]

can you make a video tutorial ? I'm really desperate

[zakariarada]

Sir will you check it up your Gmail . thanks.