devashish-patel / webcam-motion-detector

👤 Human Face and 🎥 Object Detection using OpenCV

Webcam Motion Detector

• Open Source Computer Vision based personal project to detect Human Faces and different objects coming in front of the webcam for a specific time frame.
• Programming Language: Python
• Libraries: OpenCV, Bokeh, Pandas
• For Human Face detection I've used HaarCascade Classifier XML file created by OpenCV.

Overview of Project:

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• Before you execute the project, please cover your webcam and remove the cover once your webcam starts and you can see some video recording windows on your desktop.

• You will see four different windows on your screen.

• Color Frame: Which detects the different objects

• Current Frame: Which detects the human face

• Delta Frame*: Which compares the current situation the with the initial situation

• Threshold frame* - for identification of an object

• *not important for end-user

• Try Like this...

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• At any moment if you want to stop, please press q

• A motion graph will be generated and automatically your default browser will pop-up where you can see it like this...

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How to run on your machine!! (Don't worry if you don't have Python installed, I've already taken care of it!)

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• Please download or clone this repo from here.
• Extract the folder and reach to the root of the project, by using the command line.

MAC Users:

• Write command venv/bin/python plotting.py

WINDOWS Users:

• Virtual Environment for Windows user will be available soon.