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.rubyforge.org/

The framerate of the V4L2 was improved. Fast generation of index-arrays was added. Allocated memory is not cleared by default any more for increased performance. Compiled methods are cached so they don't need to be compiled again. Furthermore weighted histograms, Fast Fourier Transforms, and an implementation of the Mean Shift algorithm where added.

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