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🎥 Motion Detection Project

A Python project that detects motion from videos using OpenCV.

🌟 Overview

This project uses simple computer vision techniques to detect motion in video streams. It's ideal for:

  • Beginners learning OpenCV
  • Building security camera simulations
  • Real-time object tracking demos

📂 Project Structure

motion-detection/
│
├── motion_detection.py       # Main Python script
├── test.mp4                  # Example video input
├── static.png                # Optional image output
├── README.md                 # Project documentation
├── .gitignore                # Files to exclude from Git

🛠️ Requirements

Install dependencies with:

pip install opencv-python imutils matplotlib numpy

🧠 How It Works

  1. Read video frame by frame
  2. Convert frames to grayscale
  3. Compare current and previous frames to detect movement
  4. Highlight detected movement with bounding boxes

▶️ Usage

Run the script with:

python motion_detection.py
  • By default, it uses the webcam.
  • To use a video file, replace cv2.VideoCapture(0) with your file path.

🔒 .gitignore

These files are ignored by Git:

static.png
test.mp4
test.png

📸 Output Example

Add screenshots or output images here, like:

Motion Detection Output

📘 License

MIT License
This project is free to use for learning and experimentation.