FRED overview

FRED stands for Fast Renka movEment Detection. It is a micro system for movement detection and tracing written in Java. FRED uses Java Media Framework to communicate with webcam, which is his eye :). Java Native Interface is used for dialog with electronics responsible for moving the whole construction to track do movement.

The algorithm used for analysis is based on colours differences between the two following pictures the webcam captures. All of the parameters of this computing can be tuned runtime from within the GUI created for this system. This and some photos connected with project can be seen at graphics page. There are some variations of the method used as basics which are described on sources page, where you can also download the latest snapshot.

At the very bottom of this page you can see the overview of FRED's Anatomy - how software interacts with hardware pieces. More information about system development and usage can be found in docs section. There is also a publication in polish which you may be interested in.

You are welcome to reuse this code. We only ask to e-mail us if you do so. Any comments about this site are also appreciated.

Authors means who is who

Mateusz 'vArDo' Biliński [email] [JID]: student of applied computer science at AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, chairman of Computer Science Students' Organization KERNEL, coordinator and main organizer of lecture series about Linux OS called "Linux -- u mnie działa"

Szymon 'Sivy' Kulis [email] [JID]: student of applied computer science at AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science