I found this online and felt like leaving it here for everyone to see, even try out if possible. I think its fairly neat.
blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/high-quality-open-source-body-tracking-sans-kinect.html
EDIT: made url link work
Draw a bounding box around an object in the camera’s field of view and Zdenek Kalal’s open source Predator algorithm will continuously track it in real-time with just a standard webcam. That’s right, get Kinect-like body tracking without the fancy hardware
EDIT: made url link work
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