CNS 186 Final Report Stereo Vision Tracking System Using Webcams

In this project, a stereo vision tracking system using webcams is constructed. This system records stereo videos of moving labeled targets and extracts the 3D trajectories of these targets from the recorded videos. It consists of three major steps – stereo video capturing, post processing, and 3D trajectory construction of labeled targets. The final goal of this stereo system is to record human stick balancing experiments and extract the stick trajectories in 3D space. In this report, both the hardware and software implementations of this stereo video capturing system are described, and the system’s performance is characterized.