I cant rember the name of it but there is an ActiveX control
floating around out there that lets you use webcam type interfaces
I was using it to do motion detection and tracking, thing is i
was running on an athlon 1.7G and getting 2-3 FPS.
VB sucks for large scale array processing lol.
I still havent learnt C++ yet though :-<

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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Patrik Husfloen
> Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2003 1:51 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT:] Cameras and VB?
>
>
> Google turned up this,
> http://dftuz.unizar.es/~rivero/alumnos/vmouse.html
> appears to be complete with source (gpl)
>
> Other than that, the way to get video from cameras is via DirectShow, so
> download the DirectX SDK and you should be set :)
>
> /Patrik
>
> Denny Esterline wrote:
> > I've been thinking of a project for a while now where I would
> need to get
> > live images from a camera into VB so I could do object detection.
> >
> > I haven't decided on a camera yet, but it'll probably just be a
> cheap USB
> > webcam. The camera will be looking at a blank wall with a lased
> diode dot.
> > I need to 'find' the dot and produce relative X and Y coordinates.
> >
> > Cycling through the bits of an image is straightforward enough,
> but I'm not
> > sure how to read the images from the camera.
> >
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > -Denny
> >
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