- import processing.video.*;
// Variable for capture device
Capture video;
// Previous Frame
PImage prevFrame;
// How different must a pixel be to be a "motion" pixel
float threshold = 120;
void setup() {
size(640,480);
video = new Capture(this, width, height, 30);
// Create an empty image the same size as the video
prevFrame = createImage(video.width,video.height,RGB);
}
void draw() {
// Capture video
if (video.available()) {
// Save previous frame for motion detection!!
prevFrame.copy(video,0,0,video.width,video.height,0,0,video.width,video.height); // Before we read the new frame, we always save the previous frame for comparison!
prevFrame.updatePixels();
video.read();
}
loadPixels();
video.loadPixels();
prevFrame.loadPixels();
// Begin loop to walk through every pixel
for (int x = 0; x < video.width; x ++ ) {
for (int y = 0; y < video.height; y ++ ) {
int loc = x + y*video.width; // Step 1, what is the 1D pixel location
color current = video.pixels[loc]; // Step 2, what is the current color
color previous = prevFrame.pixels[loc]; // Step 3, what is the previous color
// Step 4, compare colors (previous vs. current)
float r1 = red(current); float g1 = green(current); float b1 = blue(current);
float r2 = red(previous); float g2 = green(previous); float b2 = blue(previous);
float diff = dist(r1,g1,b1,r2,g2,b2);
// Step 5, How different are the colors?
// If the color at that pixel has changed, then there is motion at that pixel.
if (diff > threshold) {
// If motion, display black
pixels[loc] = color(0);
} else {
// If not, display white
pixels[loc] = color(255);
}
}
}
updatePixels();
}
This is Daniel Shiffman's code. What i'm trying is - when camera detects motion, program has to take an image and keep saving images as long as it detects motion (motion is "detected" when there is a change in pixels color - you can see in code), but every image has to be standalone file.
I tried with
- video.save("motion.jpg")
but it's isn't stable at all. After few seconds, processing sends error : "error saving image" - probably because it's saving
one image over other, but it can't do it so fast.
So, i tried with
- video.save(millis() + ".jpg."),
thinking, maybe i can solve image writing error on that way, and it works (without errors), but then it's taking images all the time, not only when camera detector is triggered.
Command
- saveFrame()
won't work with "video." as a prefix, - but, without that only black/white pixels can be saved.
Any idea/hint?
(I hope that you can understand me

)
Processing version - 1.2.1
Windows 7 Pro 32-bit