1. A method of operating a motion-capture system, comprising at least a camera, responsive to available image acquisition resources and image-analysis resources, the method including: assessing a level of the image acquisition resources available using benchmarking of acquisition components of the motion-capture system, the benchmarking of the acquisition components including evaluating processing capabilities of the acquisition components; adjusting, in response to the level of the image acquisition resources, one or more image acquisition parameters, wherein the one or more image acquisition parameters include a frame size and a frame capture rate; capturing, by a camera of the motion-capture system, a sequence of digital image frames to acquire image data for an object of interest, the sequence of digital image frames being captured in compliance with the adjusted one or more image acquisition parameters; and analyzing the image data to detect the object of interest and to approximate a contour of the object of interest.