We are having an exhibiition in Nepal at Kathmandu Engineering College organized by EPC Nepal. There will be visits from the army staff and security personnel, in other words, the expo will hover around the theme of implementing technology/robotics into security systems. Could be anything from door lock systems ranging to bomb defusing systems.
Some ideas are budding in my mind. I am trying my hands at face tracking using openCV and processing, and probably use that as a base for the whole project.
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I could use some other ideas from you guys as well.
I am running short on budget, so, it's not that likely that i will be using high-end products.
actually, i haven’t already had a fix goal on mind. I am thinking about intrusion detection using face tracking. Thanks for mentioning other goals that can be achieved. I might have a look at them.
Access Control and Notification Alert, as you have mentioned, are nice ideas to implement as well. I will try out these to see what i can come up with.
Where do you suggest me to start from? I am good with Arduino, but i am just getting the hand of processing and other stuffs.
This is a subset of OpenCV and has a Python interface. Pretty slick and easy to work with through Python. I bought the book and have found it really the only practical book I have read yet (ok, I have only read three books!) about how to attack machine vision problems. It has a sample that is about 10 lines long that will draw a square around a human face it detects in web cam.
There are libraries that work through the USB port to an Arduino from Windows, so that might be a good way to go with your demo.
There is also a C# library that are wrappers on the C++ OpenCV.
As I remember, there are some demos which probably do kind of closely what you might want. It all depends on what you are comfortable with and what you need for speed. That said, I have written C# code to replace older C++ code and my code was considerably faster (it is all clr after all, just how you get there).
