Work, Art-Projects And Experiments By Michael Schieben rockitbaby.de
Shy Cam (Experiment)
A Camera That Tries To Avoid Filming People
2008. The Shy Cam tries to avoid filming people. Eyerytime the camera recognizes a face in its field of vision it rotates in a different direction.
Technics:
- arduino
- cheap servo
- cheap webcam
- processing
- opencv
- OPENCV Processing and Java Library
Links:
- http:/www.processing.org/
- http://www.arduino.cc/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
- The SingleServoExample helped a lot
- The Insecurity Cam another exploration of the same idea was allready build in 2003 (wow!)
Credits:
- to all these open source projects