Tracking Coloured Objects in Video using OpenCV

TweetAs a newcomer to image processing, I have attempted to achieve the tracking of coloured objects in some sample video footage. In my case, my little one’s blue gloves moving in a snow-covered landscape (a bitterly cold Musselburgh allotments, December … Continue reading


Displaying AVI Video using OpenCV

TweetA short demonstration of how to use OpenCV to capture and display video frames from an avi file. The code demonstrates how to capture video from an example video (avi) file, get information in the form of frames per sec. … Continue reading


Analyzing FlyCapture2 Images obtained from Flea2 Cameras

TweetFlea2 Camera Physical Layout The photograph shows the physical setup for grabbing images from a Flea2 camera (by Point Gray Research) mounted above a Xaar inket printer. This represents a prototype used to obtain images of microarray spots printed to … Continue reading


Integrating the FlyCapture SDK for use with OpenCV

TweetIntroduction A recent stab at grabbing images from the Flea2 camera using APIs from the FlyCapture2 SDK by Point Gray Research (PGR).  Additionally, the camera was to be used in  “Format 7 mode”, so that we may grab partial regions of … Continue reading


OpenCV Detection of Dark Objects Against Light Backgrounds

TweetThe results of some experimentation with and comparison between raw OpenCV functions and the cvBlobsLib library to detect darker coloured spots against lighter backgrounds. For guidance on how to set up OpenCV / cvBlobsLIb for use in Visual Studio Environments, … Continue reading


Getting Started with OpenCV in Visual Studio

TweetOpenCV is a free, open source library that enables your computer application to “see” and make decisions from the image data it acquires.  Here are some guides for setting up OpenCV for use in Microsoft Visual Studio Environments: Installing OpenCV … Continue reading


Object Detection Using the OpenCV / cvBlobsLib Libraries

TweetA short example of how to utilize various open source library functions that can be used to identify and analyse strongly connected components for a given input image. In the example I have given here, the image represents microarray sample … Continue reading