Hi!
I got a problem with the contour node, in fact I think that the problem come from my webcam :
I always got 4 contour detected on each corner of the renderer that don’t match nothing. the problem may come from the webcam’lens, and so can’t be technicaly solved.
That’s why I would like to make the contour node don’t detect contour under a certain binsize value (for example 5), is there a way to do it ?
here is a screenshot of the problem :
Hello crasse , you can avoid your camera error by selecting the blobs you want , here i show an example , hope it,s helpfull for you .
contour_Select.v4p (25.7 kB)
what about doing a background substraction with trautner before feeding the video into contour? could also improve your tracking stability in general…
Hi !
Thanks a lot colorsound and elektromeier.
I’m using the colorsound way to avoid the problem and it works pretty good ^^
I also tried the Trautner, I made a bitmap mask, to mask corners, it worked but the video was flickering in Black/White so I wasn’t able to track colors from it. Anyway I will use the trautner for another purpose in my work ( to quantify Motion Level from the contour tracked videostream)
So thanks to both of you :)
another technique is mapping the video as a texture on a quad and use AsVideo (EX9.Texture) to put it into tracking nodes.
there is a slight performance penalty for the AsVideo detour, but as soon as you take this route you can do lens corrections, keystoning, rotating, scaling, masking in this way. If you use a shader for displaying the video you could also do color corrections, thresholding, erosion, dilation etc without any additional performance costs. also a great way to stitch two cameras into one tracking scenario.