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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] http://lobotomy.pleh.net//CappsCam/cap.jpg ? No, but are you talking about Megapixel resolution? And your program would be a HUGE pain in the ass. Training the program to reconize the various shapes, colors, positions and perspectives of humans would be, well, really freakin' hard. That's AI stuff. Do you do AI stuff? AI stuff is cool. Where's Catman at? And if it's distinct seats it's maybe easier, but if it's pews, there again you'd likely need a miracle. You'd probably get more consistent and accurate results with a door beam leg counter. Which would probably defeat the purpose of the exercise. As for equipment there is the above mentioned web-cam which seems an obvious choice. I know that the Phillips ToUCam is a popular hobbyist camera frequently modified by amateur astrophotographers for taking long exposures and various other custom software hacks. The X-10 system has some nice wireless cams, some with infra-red, wide angle, color, b&W, some with positionable mounts, and optional video to web capture hardware/software. But none of that's going to give you megapixels. You could spend $200,000 and get a nice HD Camera for this, but if you did I'd be forced to come down there and punch you in the stomach several times. Which leaves us with digital still cameras. My crappy 2MP digital camera does have the capacity to snap pictures at user definable intervals, but lacks the ability to download these until you're finished which would require regular pulling of the card/connecting the cable. The Nikons tend to be popular with the DigiCam Astrophotgraphy crowd. It's an interesting idea, but it would be profoundly difficult to implement. There was that MIT thing where the robot watched cars in the parking lot. [URL=http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/vsam/Classification/]This[/URL] isn't that but it's interesting. [URL=http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/dalleyg/presentations/index.html]This[/URL] is probably the guy to talk to. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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