1. ABSTRACT
Image processing is a form of signal processing in which the input is an image, such as a
photograph or video frame. The output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of
characteristics or parameters related to the image. Most image-processing techniques involve
treating the image as a two-dimensional signal and applying standard signal-processing
techniques to it. This paper aims at processing the real time images captured by a Webcam for
motion detection and Color Recognition using MATLAB programming. The results of this
processing can be used in numerous security applications such as intrusion detection and in Spy
robots.
Human quest for an automatic detection system of everyday occurrence led to the necessity of
inventing an intelligent surveillance system which will make lives easier as well as enable us to
compete with tomorrows technology and on the other hand it pushes us to analyze the challenge
of the automated video surveillance scenarios harder in view of the advanced artificial
intelligence. Nowadays, it is seen that surveillance cameras are already prevalent in commercial
establishments, with camera output being recorded to tapes that are either rewritten periodically
or stored in video archives. To extract the maximum benefit from this recorded digital data,
detection of any moving object from the scene is needed without engaging any human eye to
monitor things all the time. Real-time motion detection and Color Recognition of moving image
is a fundamental step in many vision systems.
