This project tries multiple different approaches to track object.
- color tracking
- face tracking
- human body tracking
The tracking itself is accomplished using internal OpenCV mechanisms.
When object is detected, python script than sends horizontal coordinate of the tracked object to arduino over serial line. Arduino in turn lights up led strip's LED diodes according to object position in camera's field of view.
http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/07/20/install-opencv-3-0-and-python-3-4-on-ubuntu/
Open ledstrip-visualizer.ino file in Arduino IDE and upload it to Arduino board. Use neopixel-type ledstrip for the visualization.
I have 2 webcams and I'm using the external one, but if you have only one webcam, you may want to change this piece of code
camera = cv2.VideoCapture(1)to
camera = cv2.VideoCapture(0)make sure arduino and webcam is connected and run it! For example:
python3 color_tracking.py