Color Recognition to play a video

    Elementi
    Mar 24 2011 | 10:36 pm
    I was wondering whether it was possible to have a web-cam picking up say the color red from a white background and then displaying a video that automatically plays. If someone could just point me to a tutorial or in the general direction it would be greatly appreciated. I'm guessing that it has to do with pixel comparison between the current frame and the previous frame with a value range for the color to look for. Am I way off or close?
    • carsol
      Mar 24 2011 | 11:35 pm
      perhaps a good start...
      Tutorial 25: Tracking the Position of a Color in a Movie
      and redball.mov ;)
    • Elementi
      Mar 25 2011 | 12:20 am
      The thing i dont really need the tracking part so much. I just need the program to recognize red has appeared on the screen and then play a video to show that.
    • carsol
      Mar 25 2011 | 1:40 am
      as always with jitter you can reach the goal in diferent ways..
      this is one,,, almost a cut and paste from the helpfile..
      use a white background and put a red object in front of the camera..
    • Elementi
      Mar 25 2011 | 1:44 pm
      ok so i get the detection part but how do i then tell max to play a video once red is detected?
    • cap10subtext
      Mar 27 2011 | 3:17 pm
      First, read and understand jitter tutorial 1 and 4.
      Once you set up a video you have a number of different choices with jit.qt.movie. Probably good to start with an if statement.
      1) if numbers are greater than -1 sent the start message to jit.qt.movie, otherwise send a stop message.
      2) you could always use the if statement to send a 1 or a 0 and then use that to change the rate attribute of the movie.