posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 1:29 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Motion Detection algorithms
There are some great articles on The Code Project including Motion Detection algorithms by Andrew Kirillov which explains techniques along with working code to track movement from video streams.
Image recognition is one of those things that humans can do relatively easily but computers find much more difficult - an area where Amazon is trialing their Mechanical Turk service, the name comes from the chess-playing automation of the 18th century which hid a chess master inside. Another interesting direction from Amazon is their Simple Storage Service - Amazon S3.
Whilst mentioning the CodeProject, shameless plug about a few articles I wrote a couple of years ago which I still get quite a few hits and emails about.