Webcam-programming in Java

[Lars]

I want to write an application that is able to read picture-streams and snapshots from a webcam, display the picture in a window and do all sorts of image-processing like edge-detection and hough-transformation. Is there
an API that can solve this task ?
Thanks in advance!

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[ackka]

If you can get the webcam to dump to a specific .jpg or something on the webserver than you can use the existing Image class to show the image in the applet. The only problem with this is it will take up a great deal of bandwith and will hardly be streaming video.

I think it would be better if you incorporated the video streaming out of some tcp/ip port. Then used a java applet to use the java.net.* package to talk to the streaming video. You then could display those bits as images inside the applet

good luck

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