I had some fun with Gary Bishop’s OpenCV Python wrapper this morning. I wanted to try out OpenCV for detecting faces using a web cam. This could be used for instance to see if someone is sitting behind his desk or not. I used Gary’s Python wrapper since I didn’t want to code in C++.
... OpenCV has very complete Python bindings. Unfortunately, these bindings and how to use them properly to capture images from a webcam are not documented. Only after careful searching on the sizable OpenCV mailing list did I finally find the answer. ...