Motion tracking and object recognition

This week I am researching on the possibilities of using motion tracking or object recognition in my project. In short, I want the camera to recognize people and their movement so that their postures will not be affected by special effects. Only the background is going to morph. This technique is possible to achieve in Max/MSP Jitter thanks to 'cv.jit' library. It is all fine except one thing - I do not posses the full version of Jitter which is needed for the library to work. Still, no problem - I can always work in TVU facilities where the full version of Jitter is installed on Mac's. In the meantime, I am researching on similar techniques to cv.jit or an equivalent. 

This is what I have found browsing the web. It is called CamSpace and is a great software to play games without controllers such as joysticks, mouse, keyboard or pad. All you need to controll anything in your PC is a camera. This software is recognizing the objects seen by the camera thanks to colour recognition. Anything in front of the camera can become a controller. This is awesome! This invention can be expanded and used in many different ways, not just to play games. But enough reading. See it yourself on their website.It is also ready to be installed on any PC for free. 

I found more on this topic of motion tracking. Here is a blog on which the creator is explaining and demonstrating how we can play 'ping pong' live video tracking and a microphone.

Time-based imaging project part3

Here are some videos and tutorials about high quality timelapse effects. Remarkably cheap setup allows to capture high quality images and then create a movie from a series of images. The tutorial and videos are described on 
And here is an amazing time lapse video I spotted on YouTube

The design of the glove

While working on the effects I am trying to apply in my project, more and more I am also thinking about the design of the glove. A good example of what I am up to is the scene from 'Minority Report' movie. As I am a fan of Philip K. Dick's film adaptations, I like the design of gloves in that movie. 

What interests me more, is the idea of lights on top of the fingers. Now, I am thinking wheteher it is possible to have a pair of gloves. On one hand, the camera with the ultrasonic sensor, and on the other a big multi-coloured LED in the palm of a hand. When both gloves/hands are close to each other, the one with the LED on can represent the object in a different light and thanks to that change the effect seen on the screen. I came up with this idea also thanks to 'jit.chromakey' patch in Max/MSP Jitter. Chromakeying is the method of masking out one colour, with a tolerance, and replacing it with other data/footage. The colour can be altered so I am planing to take a closer look on that.