From: OlivierDugas <oli...@ul...> - 2013-07-02 14:42:19
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Hi, I recently followed successfully the official tutorial on gumstix's wiki about how to use the caspa camera (http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Caspa_camera_boards) with the help of the great tutorial found there: http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Dev/Caspa I was able to get pictures with my camera with an old kernel (2.6.34). The thing is that I wanted to use the camera on the 3.5.0 kernel, and if possible with ROS. ROS FAQ (http://answers.ros.org/question/27556/gumstix-caspa-camera-and-ubuntu-1104/) tells that I can manage to install ros on the old 2.6.34 kernel, but I found nothing about ROS and using the camera. Furthermore, I know that for the 3.5.0 kernel, I can use a simple script to install media-ctl and yavta (https://github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/blob/master/pkgs/aptina-media-ctl-n-yavta.sh). I also know from (http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-on-Overo-FE-3-5-kernel-td4966351.html) and (http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-FS-on-Yocto-gumstix-td4966530.html) that I can do the following to get images with this 3.5.0 kernel: media-ctl -r media-ctl -v -l '"mt9v032 3-005c":0->"OMAP3 ISP CCDC":0[1]' media-ctl -v -l '"OMAP3 ISP CCDC":1->"OMAP3 ISP CCDC output":0[1]' media-ctl -v -f '"mt9v032 3-005c":0[SGRBG10 752x480]' media-ctl -v -f '"OMAP3 ISP CCDC":1[SGRBG10 752x480]' yavta -p -f SGRBG10 -s 752x480 -n 4 --capture=1 --skip 0 $(media-ctl -e "OMAP3 ISP CCDC output") --file=img.bin I don't know what to do with these .bin images. I tried to open it using matlab, but I could not understand the format. Also getting lot of errors from the tools I tried to use to open the images. Also in my case, using the good old mplayer command on the new kernel gets me solid green images in png format. So my questions are : How do we use pictures in the .bin format? Can we save pictures in png format using 3.5.0 kernel (Linaro)? Can ROS be used with the caspa cameras somehow? If anybody could help to answer one question or more, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- View this message in context: http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967481.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: bhamadicharef <bha...@ho...> - 2013-07-02 15:32:58
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Should be 10bit linear into 16bit words ... 752x480x2 = 721920 bytes Can you check the size f the .bin files to verify ? Share one file if you want some MATLAB code to verify the above ... Brahim -- View this message in context: http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967483.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: OlivierDugas <oli...@ul...> - 2013-07-02 15:51:43
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Hi and thanks for the reply. the size of the file is currently 2165760 bytes which is exactly 3 times bigger. So my guess would be that there are 3 channels in this image (which makes sense? is it RBG format?) The matlab code used to open the image is : >> directory_name = uigetdir; >> cd(directory_name); >> binfile = dir('*.bin'); >> fid = fopen(binfile.name); >> A = fread(fid, 'uint8=>uint8'); >> fclose(fid); But the format looks real strange to me. it looks like this, all in one column. 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 #snip# 95 1 91 1 21 2 251 1 135 1 254 3 49 1 28 3 14 #snip 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 254 3 Do you have some matlab code that would allow me to reformat the image into a (752*480*3) matrix? And I might be asking too much, but in fact I would prefer this .bin image to be loaded and manipulated in python, since I will have to translate it to python anyway. thanks again -- View this message in context: http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967484.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: bhamadicharef <bha...@ho...> - 2013-07-03 02:35:59
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If you driver has this type of format V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGRBG10 http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/pixfmt-srggb10.html then you need to decode the "raw sRGB / Bayer formats with 10 bits per colour" Read this http://www.imatest.com/docs/raw/ Try some Bayer to RGB conversion using MATLAB To reshape MATLAB data use ... http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/reshape.html Brahim -- View this message in context: http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967492.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: <ad...@st...> - 2013-07-03 10:32:39
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About changing image from Bayer format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter) which is used by Caspa you can write simple application in opencv to load an image and format it to normal RGB and save it in, for example .PNG file. I don't have any snippets of the code on me, but I can send it later how to achieve this if you want. W dniu 2013-07-03 04:35, bhamadicharef napisał(a): > If you driver has this type of format V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGRBG10 > http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/pixfmt-srggb10.html > > then you need to decode the "raw sRGB / Bayer formats with 10 bits > per > colour" > > Read this http://www.imatest.com/docs/raw/ > > Try some Bayer to RGB conversion using MATLAB > > To reshape MATLAB data use ... > http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/reshape.html > > Brahim > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > > http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967492.html > Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |
From: Peter A. B. <pa...@pa...> - 2013-07-03 11:32:20
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On 07/02/2013 09:41 AM, OlivierDugas wrote: > Furthermore, I know that for the 3.5.0 kernel, I can use a simple script to > install media-ctl and yavta > (https://github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/blob/master/pkgs/aptina-media-ctl-n-yavta.sh). > I also know from > (http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-on-Overo-FE-3-5-kernel-td4966351.html) > and > (http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-FS-on-Yocto-gumstix-td4966530.html) > that I can do the following to get images with this 3.5.0 kernel: What you know from the second posting (which I wrote) is that you can get data from the camera on Yocto builds. The data I got with that sequence was not a valid image (all constant, encoding is irrelevant). A second (VS) camera produced the same sort of data. The failure mode suggests to me that the driver does not work, or needs special configuration. Most of the follow-up posts in your thread deal with the format of the data. If the captured image is not an actual image in some other format, converting it won't help much. I have yet to see evidence that the Caspa can be made functional on a current Yocto-based gumstix build, though if somebody could confirm that and give details on a working configuration I might actually start using Gumstix again. Peter |
From: OlivierDugas <oli...@ul...> - 2013-07-03 13:21:57
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Thanks a lot for you advice. I'm a bit busy for the current week, but I will let you know what I was able to do as soon as possible. -- View this message in context: http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967499.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
From: OlivierDugas <oli...@ul...> - 2013-07-17 17:14:32
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Hi everybody First of all, the above replies made me realize that I misused matlab to load the .bin images. The following code is used to load an image into matlab. binfile = dir('img.bin'); fid = fopen(binfile.name); A = fread(fid, 'uint16=>uint16'); fclose(fid); B = reshape(A,752,480); RGB = demosaic(B,'gbrg'); imshow(RGB) Right now, I do succeed to load the image into matlab BUT it's a full black image. I know that the camera is not the problem, since I did manage to capture a yellowish portrait of me using an old angstrom freeze. Thus, I don't understand why the image capture using a recent OS like Linaro is not working. I use a Caspa VL, but I don't think it matters to use a VL instead of a FS, since the difference is the infrared filter for all I know. Thanks again for your time. -- View this message in context: http://gumstix.8.x6.nabble.com/Caspa-cameras-with-Linaro-3-5-0-kernel-or-using-ROS-tp4967478p4967557.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |