tracking specific color

Question

what are the Min requirements (hardware and software) to write code that can track specific coloured-object?

Answer 1

Computer Vision is a complicated subject. This isn't really a question that can be answered as it is.

Tracking objects depends a lot on

1. The parameters of the object (i.e. consistant colour, reflective, distance and angle relative the viewer and so on)
2. The requirements of the tracking (i.e. accuracy, sampling rate, no of objects to track etc).
3. Environmental parameters such as lighting etc

As such, your hardware requirments to run tracking code will vary enourmously. For the very simplest situation, you can track a moving object with 1970s technology.

For the hardest real-life situations, even cutting edge technology may not be enough.

The software is hard to even discuss without knowing the full requirement.

(if you're actually talking about a development environment for writing code, this depends on what you're trying to do, what tools you're using and so on, which should all be decided first).

Answer 2

Here's a little code that does color tracking using openframeworks (which uses OpenCV)

http://wiki.openframeworks.cc/index.php?title=Color_Tracking