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Reputation: 7413

Quick motion detection in opencv

I want to detect motion in a quick way before tracking, will absDiff() (or cmpS() ) between 2 frames be sufficient to achieve this or should I consider something more? Pls keep in mind I'm completely new to vision processing and opencv :)

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8186

Answers (3)

Dark Star1
Dark Star1

Reputation: 7413

There's no quick and easy way. The method I'm trying is to build a background image over time, subtract the foreground which would be anything not part of the background and put a roi over the foreground object.

Upvotes: 0

bersi
bersi

Reputation: 66

There is a pretty good explanation in chapter 9 of the book 'Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library'. Depending on your scene (indoors/outdoors, lighting conditions etc) the learning stage of your algorithm consists of accumulating the difference between frames in a buffer, then filtering the result using morphology operations to cancel noise. Or, when basic cvAbsDiff detects spurious motion, you implement a little bit more complicated 'codebook' algorithm instead.

The source code is available on the OReilly's site.

Upvotes: 2

Browny Lin
Browny Lin

Reputation: 2507

If you want to detect the specific object's motion, you would need 'connected components' calculation. Refer to http://www.bukisa.com/articles/263221_connected-components-using-opencv

Upvotes: 2

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