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[Mats]

Quoting Reed Hedges <reed at interreality.org>:

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> Has anyone seen or been able to try out this new webcam from
> logitech?
> It does some neat things like track your movement and use that to
> move
> an "avatar" image instead of displaying the real video, and it can do
> backgrounds or superimpose pictures on top of the video image with
> motion tracking.  Not sure if it does this in hardware or in the
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> driver.  Also no idea how hard it would be to get just the motion
> tracking data out of it without having it also modify the image.
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> Reed

I belive it's done in the video effects software with a patented
algorithm by neven vision. There is some open source that does similar
things e.g. http://www.fuzzgun.btinternet.co.uk/rodney/humanbody.htm.
There's also interesting research going on in similar areas, e.g.
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Projects/Human/human.html

Mats