This program implements a simple motion detection idea. It was written as an first laboratory assignment for the course SMD151 – Multimedia Systems at the Luleå University of Technology. The authors are:

– Luka Čehovin (GUI, motion detection algorithm, Quicktime for Java binding)
- Md. Farhad Shahid (JME binding)
- Rudy Mounier (JME binding)

Note: This application is meant only as a demonstration of the motion detection algorithm (which is not that good actually). You can play a bit with the parameters if you manage to run it, but otherwise it is pretty useless.

Download

The archive at the bottom of this page contains everything that we hand in for this assignment. Java sources, Jar file with executable classes, project report with many grammar errors and JavaDoc with even more grammar (and spelling) errors.

You will need Java Runtime Environment 5.0 in order to run Sentinel (it was tested on Sun's JRE on Windows and on Apple's modified version of Java on Mac OSX. You will also need Java Media Framework (Windows and Linux) or Quicktime for Java (OSX – I think it is installed by default).

License

This program is licensed under GNU General Public License.

Running

A bit of console magic:

java -cp sentinel.jar sentinel.Sentinel

If the global class-path is not properly configured you will have to add the link to the video capture framework to the command line class-path.