Realtime video tracking with a pan-tilt camera

[Slaymate]

A good friend of mine, Blake Foster, along with a couple of other students designed this as part of their graduate research. They even supply a parts list and the software they developed.

The human eye is amazingly adept at tracking moving objects. The process is so natural to humans that it happens without any conscious effort. While this remarkable ability depends in part on the human brain's immense processing power, the fast response of the extraocular muscles and the eyeball's light weight are also vital. Even a small point and shoot camera mounted on a servo is typically too heavy and slow to move with the agility of the human eye. How, then, can we give a computer the ability to track movement quickly and responsively?

UMass Graphics & Vision Research: Realtime Tracking With a Pan-Tilt Camera

Here's a YouTube Video

 

[Fat.Clown]

that is awesome!
seems like the kind of stuff that would be really useful for casino security

 

[Slaymate]

I was thinking it might be useful for video reviews.

 

[Yami]

If you could get it follow an infrared beam, that would be awesome. Have one person presenting the review, another pointing the beam at stuff in question.