Knowing what's going new is one of your major responsibility. Also, you project adviser/leader is supposed to be competent in the field and provide basic help.
I don't think this is the adequate question for CodeProject.
Are you familiar with AForge.NET?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AForge.NET[
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http://www.aforgenet.com/[
^].
It's author
Andrew Kirillov is also the CodeProject author; you can look at hist articles and try to ask him some questions.
Try to search CodeProject article — I use to read several articles on your topic.
If someone else share her or his experience consider yourself lucky.
—SA