Webcam Motion Detection in Real-Time Using Python

Webcams are an integral part of our daily life now. Through webcams, we are able to remotely monitor the surrounding. Webcams are able to capture images which need to be extracted with meaningful information. This paper presents a method to use programming to extract the information. Python’s super flexible and easy to use nature is what makes it amongst the popular programming language, especially for Data Scientists. A major point is that how simple it is to work with datasets of large size. Today, every technology company is building up some strategy regarding data. They’ve all realized that having the right kind of data: which provide great insight and should be clean and, as much of it as possible, gives them a key advantage over their competitors. Data, if used carefully and effectively, can offer deep insights that cannot be discovered anywhere else.Using image processing capabilities of python, we are able to develop a webcam motion detector. Code for this is written on Pycharm framework and OpenCV is the library used for purpose of image processing.