What is the simplest most effective way to motion detect using webcams ?

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For a while now I've been searching reading and trying out some of the open source out there. With not much background in Matlab.
I'm trying to write a motion detection code based on background subtraction or temporal difference methods. And since my lack of experience when I read papers and mathematical equations I can't implement it into code and when I read source codes I can't really understand what goes on underneath.
Could you kindly point me out in the right direction. What is the best way to motion detect for a Security/ Alarm system so it needs to be fast and uninfected by noise other that intruders for closed spaces? And how can I implement it while I still understand every single line of the code?
Thank you

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Anand
Anand on 13 Apr 2013

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 13 Apr 2013
The Mathworks web site has many pages on tracking. Most are short demos that involve the Computer Vision System Toolbox or the Image Processing Toolbox or Image Acquisition Toolbox. Do a search: http://www.mathworks.com/searchresults/?q=tracking&q1=tracking&q2=&q3=&notq=&c[]=productsservices&c[]=solutions_tn
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Ankur Singh
Ankur Singh on 31 Mar 2014
hey image analyst
in optical flow method what tells us that some motion has been detected??

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tairman singh
tairman singh on 18 Apr 2013
try this function function [logic]=mcheck(f,s)
sub=imabsdiff(f,s);
diff_im=im2bw(sub,.07);
diff_im = medfilt2(diff_im, [3 3]);
diff_im = bwareaopen(diff_im,500);
imbw = imfill(diff_im,'holes');
[a b c]=size(imbw);
count=im2col(imbw,[a b],'sliding');
count=sum(count);
if count<=3000
logic=1;
else
logic=0;
end
end
it takes two consecutive images clicked by the camera, as the input function parameters i.e 'f' and 's' and return logic '1' or '0' if it detect motion or not. Changing different values of count ,allows you to control the sensitivity.

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