Hi

(don’t look to your patch…. no Max here)

I’ve made an similar work last year for school.

I had the same CPU problem… I have used 3 computer (1-Filming & processing, 2-Creating realtime music, 3-Calculating projections to table)

How I’ve solved the problem:

Detection made step by step
– detect end of motion
– detect diference from empty table still image(result all the balls)
– mask the balls
– use mask of 1st ball to "median" the RGB
– use mask of 2nd ball to "median" the RGB
– …etc… till the last ball
– use that information to identify all the balls
– detect movement
– repete again…

Then the XY position of every ball was sended to the other computers… they know what to do with it!

Every step unlug the video feed to the last one… this was the best solutins to reduce CPU comsumption. This also mean that I can’t use two processes at the same time. Every step makes the computer to run more than 60%.

I’ve gave up to detect colors in real time…. It’s possible if you have an time machine to buy an future computer, or you need to program C and make your own Operative System…. (just to do that)… or Cycling kills QuickTime based Jitter… thats the main problem.

Sorry my bad english and hope I’ve helped somehow!