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Questions regarding trying to implement a golf ProTracer!

Altera_Forum
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Have any of you heard of protracer? here's an example: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16vfhf3g0o ) It provides an incredible view of a golf balls trajectory. 

 

 

Would something like this be possible to do with a High Quality Camera and an FPGA board? 

 

 

My thinking is along these lines: 

 

 

"after capturing the images, the camera is able to distinguish (using dsp) where the white ball is in each frame, and in the playback reconstruction it paints a line over the position of the ball. since these cameras have a very high sampling rate, they're able to create a very smooth, accurate line." 

 

 

I guess my 1st question would be how quality of a camera would you need to track a tiny white object up to 400 yards away? How do you neglect birds/other foreign objects? 

 

 

Do you guys know of any sample projects similar to this? 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for any and all input! I'm really looking forward to hearing from you
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Altera_Forum
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Very possible. Are you sure the existing technology doesn't use FPGAs? I have my suspicions... 

 

I saw a very similar demo during a recent trip I made to Altera here in the UK. Not golf balls, but tracking movement of items equally small as a percentage of the screen. 

 

Cheers, 

Alex
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