opencv-camera 2023.1.7

An OpenCV camera library

OpenCV Camera

Simple threaded camera and calibration code using OpenCV. This tries to simplify some things

Install

The preferred way to install is using pip:

pip install opencv_camera

Usage

See the jupyter notebooks under the docs in the repository for some examples.

Online nbviewer

Colorspace

Change between common colorspaces with:

• bgr2gray(image)
• gray2bgr(image)
• bgr2rgb(image)
• rgb2bgr(image)
• bgr2hsv(image)
• hsv2bgr(image)

Calibration

Create a mosaic of input calibration images with mosaic(images, width)

Calibrate a camera with:

calibrator = CameraCalibration()
board = ChessboardFinder((9,6), 1)
cam, cal = calibrator.calibrate(images, board)

Display all of the found image points with coverage((width, height), imagePoints)

Distortion

Use the found calibration parameters to undistort an image:

un = UnDistort(cameraMatrix, distortionCoeff, w, h)
corr_img = un.undistort(image)

Visualize the lens distortion with:

visualizeDistortion(cameraMatrix, distortCoeff, height, width)

Stereo

Calibrate a stereo camera with:

stereoCal = StereoCalibration()
board = ChessboardFinder((9,6), 1)
ok, cm, sc = stereoCal.calibrate(imgL, imgR, board)

Draw epipolar lines in stereo images with drawEpipolarLines(imgpointsL,imgpointsR,imgL,imgR)

Apps

Use program --help to display switches for each of the following:

• opencv_calibrate: calibrate a camera
• opencv_capture: simple tool to capture and save images
• opencv_mjpeg: sets up a simple jmpeg server so you can view images in a web browser
• udp_server x.x.x.x: sends camera images via UDP
• udp_client x.x.x.x: displays UDP camera images from server

ToDo

• Remoded apriltag calibration, moved to moms_apriltag library
• Add pointcloud from stereo
• Add parameters for known cameras
• Add Jupyter notebook documentation and examples
• Simplify stereo camera
• Add computeReprojectionErrors and visualizeReprojErrors
• Add visualizeDistortion
• Add visualizeExtrinsics
• Remove attrs, replaced with python's dataclass
• Add save/load from yaml
• Add stereo calibration pytest

Change Log

Date	Version	Notes
	2022.12.23	changed version number to match date, changed to opencv-contrib-python
2020-12-27	0.10.10	added distortion and reprojection display
2020-09-15	0.10.8	added known camera params and general cleanup
2020-08-24	0.10.6	added UDP image server and client
2020-07-03	0.10.2	renamed and focused on camera
2018-07-19	0.9.4	simple clean-up and updating some things
2017-10-29	0.9.3	bug fixes
2017-04-09	0.9.0	initial python 3 support
2017-03-31	0.7.0	refactored and got rid of things I do not need
2017-01-29	0.6.0	added video capture (video and images) program
2016-12-30	0.5.3	typo fix
2016-12-30	0.5.1	refactored
2016-12-11	0.5.0	published to PyPi
2014-3-11	0.2.0	started

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Kevin J. Walchko

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