Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
11 years ago

real time object tracking (need your help)

hello EVERYONE,

so I'm A BEGINNER TO THE EMBEDDED SYSTEM FIELD AND I'll be working on a big project which is similar to the project in these links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qreo_zkjbl8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euoebhqmt5m

but the difference is that i want to use a touch screen so i can pick the object to be tracked among other objects.

so there will objects with different colors moving and i want the camera to track the object that i choose by touching its place on the screen.

I know this project is gonna be difficult to do (due to my lack of knowledge in the field and its complexity) but i'm very enthusiastic to do it.

please answer any of my questions here.

1- what is the best suitable fpga board for such a project?

2- what touch screen can use and how to interface to the fpga board?

3- do I need a microcontroller to run the servos or can I just use the fpga to do that?

4- what other hardware and interfaces you think will be needed for this project? what i know so far is that ill need

a high speed camera, camera link, fpga board, 2 servos and a touch screen

5- how can power the entire system?

and please refer me to any research or website that would help me in this project and throw any piece of info that may help writing the code

your help is very appreciated.

4 Replies

  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
    Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
    11 years ago

    Since you are beginner with such questions, do the project on PC with a webcam and a mouse. Use Qt or Visual Studio, if you will still have some enthusiasm at the end, go for FPGAs with gathered experience from software project.

  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
    Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
    11 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Since you are beginner with such questions, do the project on PC with a webcam and a mouse. Use Qt or Visual Studio, if you will still have some enthusiasm at the end, go for FPGAs with gathered experience from software project.

    --- Quote End ---

    Thanks for the reply. I did the basic motion detection and tracking on a pc using a webcam but without using servos or any other hardware. I'm also taking basic lessons on vhdl currently. what i want to know is what are the hardware components needed for the project above so i can after that gather all the info about the components and how to interface them and write the code.

    if you have any info about any of my questions then that would great.

    Thanks