Last week’s blog post taught us how to write videos to file using OpenCV and Python. This is a great skill to have, but it also raises the question: How do I write video clips containing interesting events to file…

Let me just start this blog post by saying that writing to video with OpenCV can be a huge pain in the ass. My intention with this tutorial is to help you get started writing videos to file with OpenCV…

I’ll keep the introduction to today’s post short, since I think the title of this post and GIF animation above speak for themselves. Inside this post, I’ll demonstrate how to attach multiple cameras to your Raspberry Pi…and access all of…

Over the past two weeks on the PyImageSearch blog, we have discussed how to use threading to increase our FPS processing rate on both built-in/USB webcams, along with the Raspberry Pi camera module. By utilizing threading, we learned that we…

Today is the second post in our three part series on milking every last bit of performance out of your webcam or Raspberry Pi camera. Last week we discussed how to: Increase the FPS rate of our video processing pipeline.…

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be doing a series of blog posts on how to improve your frames per second (FPS) from your webcam using Python, OpenCV, and threading. Using threading to handle I/O-heavy tasks (such as reading frames…

Wow, last week’s blog post on building a basic motion detection system was awesome. It was a lot of fun to write and the feedback I got from readers like yourself made it well worth the effort to put together.…

Last updated on July 8, 2021. That son of a bitch. I knew he took my last beer. These are words a man should never, ever have to say. But I muttered them to myself in an exasperated sigh of…

I’m going to start this post by clueing you in on a piece of personal history that very few people know about me: as a kid in early high school, I used to spend nearly every single Saturday at the…