HornetsEye is a Ruby real-time computer vision extension. It offers interfaces to do image- and video-I/O with ImageMagick/Magick++, Xine, firewire digital camera (DC1394), and video for linux (V4L).

For more information about HornetsEye have a look at the project homepage: http://hornetseye.sourceforge.net/

Now Hornetseye also runs on MS Windows. Currently Hornetseye for Windows is pretty basic since it does not have Video-I/O and cannot yet display images without the help of Qt4. If you are still interested you can already download a big package with installers for Ruby, HornetsEye, Qt4, and a lot more. See http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/hornetseye-api/files/Installation-txt.html for more information.

You can download the most recent release of HornetsEye at:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2714