MAKE | Detern – Geschwindigkeitsmessung per WebCam (measure speed by web cam?)

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/12/20 @ 12:00 pm
Category Art & Design, Computers & Mobile

Site is in German, but with the software there it appears you can measure the speed of vehicles with a web cam (We didn’t test this out, please be careful, etc..) – Link.

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4 Responses to Detern – Geschwindigkeitsmessung per WebCam (measure speed by web cam?)

Solarstorm on December 20th, 2007 at 12:59 pm said:

I was astonished reading german in the RSS Feed. ^^
And your right, translated it’s mesure speed by a webcam.

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Wim on December 20th, 2007 at 1:29 pm said:

This is an interesting subject. My local university & state dept of trans have done work on this too: Traffic Video: The Use of Uncalibrated CCTV Cameras as Quantitative Speed Sensors. No published software, but some articles.

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martinh on December 21st, 2007 at 9:46 am said:

The instructions:
Recommended camera settings:
1. automatic brightness levels.
2. saturation to 0 (no color)
3. the camera must be able to do at least 25 fps.
4. only 320×240 resolution required.
5. automatically stops measuring after 3 seconds
6. Cars require a travel distance of at least 5m to measure, longer vehicles such as trucks and buses require a minimum travel distance of 10m to measure.
7. Camera must be perpendicular to the road.
8. a vehicle traveling 50km/h will require 14 ms to travel 10m.
9. depending on computer speed, the measure points will be polled about 100 to 200 times per second.

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suzis2000 on January 22nd, 2012 at 7:15 pm said:

You can also install SpeedCam 2012 from http://www.raserabwehr.de. It allows you to measure vehicle speed with your webcam and also make what they call “radar photos”.

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