A useful task that OpenCV and your webcam can do is to track objects. This might be useful if you are building a system that needs to track and follow a colored object. OpenCV makes this amazingly simple by providing some high-level libraries that can help with this task. I'm going to do this in Python, as I find it much easier to work with than C. If you're a coder who feels more comfortable in C, these instructions should be fairly easy to translate to the C environment.
If you'd like, create a directory to hold your image-based work. From your home directory, you can create an imageplay directory name by typing mkdir imageplay while in your home directory. Then, change directory to the ...
