Image/Video Processing in Python

[Tim Roberts]

"dongie.agnir at gmail.com" <dongie.agnir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hello, I'm trying to work on a project in Python that involves the use
>of a webcam to track a laser pointer.  I found some example code here
>http://janto.blogspot.com/2006/01/motion-capture-in-python.html, but
>the problem is that it's quite slow (about a sec to  process a 800 by
>600 image).  Can anyone who has experience with computer vision help
>me?  Are there any existing algorithms for finding a color in an image
>and plotting its coordinates?  It would help me very much.

You're talking about raw number crunching.  This is exactly the kind of
case where you should write some C or C++ code and call it from Python.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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