Hi,

during the last 2 years I worked on several projects which involved the analysing of webcam-images. (face detection, motion tracking, object recognition, ...) We did this both in C#.NET and MatLab.

The software part always works out pretty well. But as soon as we want to connect a webcam to it, we always have problems.
1) Resolution too low
2) Speed is too low
3) WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) not supported by the webcam

Because starting from july I will be dropped in a commercial project which involves a webcam, I decided to buy a new webcam.

Buying a webcam is pretty easy if you only want to use it for home use. But when you want to use it in software development that's harder.

I wonder, does anybody know a website where webcams are compared based on their specifications which apply for software development?

Or is there anybody who can tell me, definitly don't buy this, or do buy that?

Thank you in advance !
Greetings