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The cmvision package looks like it's set up to do this fairly well.

It's documented on the ROS Wiki: http://wiki.ros.org/cmvision

And they also have a nice tutorial

Note that, because ROS nodes communicate over standardized messages, you should be able to use any of the vision processing nodes with any of the camera drivers.

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