Export Frames to SimpleCV
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Hello
Is there any way to export frames or image feed from PS-drone?
I am working on a project involving obstacle navigation in python. I have been using PS-Drone to interface with the drone and navigate, however i need a way to access the camera from simple CV (to do the image proccessing) or atleast export the frames from PS-Drone.
Thank You!
Hello Richard,
after starting the drone's video-thread, the variable "VideoImage" provides a OpenCV-Image-Object (its not necessary to use showVideo() ). In case you use OpenCV, you can just use it as a normal image and process it as usual. Section 3.6 of the documentation might give you more details.
The video-process of PS-Drone is still a bit bitchy, so don't mind strange error-messages and restart your program, I will fix it the next days.
Well, you have to install OpenCV to get video-images anyway, it might be easier to use OpenCV to process the image, than converting it.
Anyway, I don't know SimpleCV maybe its a stripped-down OpenCV, same image-object-types would solve a lot of problems of cause. But in case you need to convert the image, I suggest the python-modul "NumPy" to copy the raw image from object to an other.
Hope my answer was helpful. Good luck and happy coding,
Philipp