09-19-2014, 09:47 AM
(09-18-2014, 11:51 PM)alias link Wrote: Tested my home made head track using FreeTrack + 3 LEDs in a cap model.
I was able to filter out ambiental light, nothing special just tweaking web camera settings... gamma, gain, contrast etc. Works even with my lights on in the room.
Works fine only thing is the head movement is not very smooth it moves in small increments like is taking too long to calculate coordinates, but responds well and with practice and tweaking i got pretty accurate head movement.
ASAP i'll test same thing with FaceTrackNoir maybe that one is faster.
The whole thing costs 1 Euro
I did find with my previous PC (Phenom II X4 955 @3.5Ghz) that LED tracking with FTNoIR used a fair bit of CPU, maybe 10%, whereas the Pro Micro/GY-85 uses less than 1%, because the Pro Micro does most of the work but unless you've got a very old PC, it shouldn't be jerky like that.
FTNoIR is a lot less buggy than Freetrack in my experience, although you might want to try OpenTrack instead as that seems to be receiving more active development and has some features that FTNoIR doesn't.