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I have about 100 hours of VCR tapes of a camera looking at a spot on the 
ocean surface. Depending on the wind an wave conditions, you can see 
breaking wave whitecaps going across the TV screen. It would be nice if 
I could use those tapes to count the number of events (number of breaking 
waves moving across the screen), perhaps do statistics on the 
characteristics of those whitecaps and maybe even examine the evolution of  
breaking wave whitecaps. 

I'm looking for software and hardware that is fast enough to grab and 
process TV frames in real time. I've seen software (Jandel's JAVA) that will 
take an image and count objects, measure areas, etc. It would have been 
perfect except it cannot do this in real time.

Pardon the rather naive question but is what I want to do possible?
Does anyone here know of a software and frame grabber combination  
for PCs (I have a Dell 486D50 ISA bus) that can do the job? My budget is 
about $3K.

Thank you.

   - Francis
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Francis C Felizardo				francis@mpl.ucsd.edu
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 0213	      (619) 534 1085
La Jolla, CA 92093-0213