Hi everyone,
I’m just posting here to ask everyone if anyone here knows a good, easy to use, simply C++ library to use to access a Generic USB Webcam. I want to make an app which will use some image analysis and motion tracking. I’ve decided on C++ and to use a webcam, I just need a good C++ library to use. It doesn’t need to be feature rich, if anything the opposite would be better, all I need is something that I can use to connect to a USB webcam and grab the current image and store it into a buffer I use to read the RGB values (It will be tracking the movement of a specific colour object).
The idea is I want to make something to track the motion of my finger and maybe control an onscreen object maybe later on if it works the cursor (well thats the plan at least, I’m just relying on the great programming gods(aka people on this forum) to give me the good fortune to be able to figure out how to do so). I figure I won’t be able to do the analysing of the image any more than 10times a second but even so the speed the library accesses the image at will be an important factor. I’m also on windows, I’d love to turn this into an opensource project and make it OS independent and all but first things first I would just like to get a working result of my idea, if it works then I will share the result with everyone.
(if it works…:hurt:).
If anyone has any advice on anything else I should know before starting this mini-I-have-too-much-spare-time-project, I’d be happy to hear.
