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Are You Smarter than a Sentry Gun?: An Investigation of Motion Tracking

Booth Id:
CS322

Category:
Earth and Environmental Sciences

Year:
2014

Finalist Names:
Jandura, Sven (School: Patrick Henry High School)
Sidley-Parker, William (School: Patrick Henry High School)
Zhang, Jovan (School: Patrick Henry High School)

Abstract:
In this project, we developed an intelligent motion tracking system incorporating both software and hardware. The software reads in a video stream from a webcam, processes it to recognize moving targets, and converts this information into motor movements so that the sentry system can aim at the target. To demonstrate this capability, we built a prototype of the sentry system and used the software to control it in such a way that the aiming system always points to the main target. To the best of our knowledge such a project has seldom been realized.