Learning Vision Control

[minisolarclown]

Our team has been looking into vision control/processing for this coming season. Our setup is going to be a USB Webcam with a green LED ring plugged directly into the roborio. I already know how to stream video from the camera to the smartdashboard, but it doesn't process it. We need it to be able to locate a target and give the position of the center of it. I've done extensive research as to how to go about doing it, but nothing has worked. The preferred way of processing it would be on the roborio, but I'm open to other methods, for as long as the setup isn't too painful. I've seen every link in the screenstepslive tutorials, but it never works. GRIP is another thing I have tried using, but it is blocked by every single antivirus software there is, and I'm not ready to trust something like that. I hope someone will be able to help me.