​Infrared reflective tracking - Where to find a good camera.

[Video Architect]

Ive looked at various options for motion tracking and although the werkstat presentation by Mark offers lots of useful info it won't work in my situation.

BUT I did stumble across this vide from Panasonic. And the section at 5 minutes outlines the process. It basically uses an IR emitter, a camera and a reflective surface is placed on the object you want to track. (Presumably the heat signature(?) of the reflection surface can be tuned separately from heat from the body.

Despite being a Panasonic "thing" I can't see why the basic IR emitter and camera set up can't be funnelled into an eyes++ actor. 

MY STRUGGLE is finding reliable info about IR cameras and emitters. 

I imagine that it could be difficult to separate the IR video from the visual video stream on cheaper security cameras?

I also imagine it would be useful if the cameras attenuation/sensitivity was tuneable?

Does anyone have experience with this method? 

Would a Kinect be OK for this?

[Woland]

@video-architect

What is the budget?

You could make your own IR source with a little infrared diode connected to a battery and then get a cheap IR pass filter for just about any camera (or use a security camera). You can also make an improvised IR pass filter by buying camera film, exposing it to light, developing it, then double-layering the exposed+developed film.