Mike, Great write up. When I have some free time, I will replicate your steps on my BBB running Arch Linux. Not sure if you have a personal website, but would you mind me posting this to my blog once it makes it out of draft?
I look forward to seeing your aircraft in action; on to the CV problems! On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Michael Darling <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Here is a summary of what I ended up doing to get 30 fps out of the BBB. > You are right -- it simply came down to taking advantage of NEON hardware > acceleration. My little "How-To" guide might be a bit verbose, but you > can skip all of the background information and skip right to the steps I > took if you like. However reading some of the background information might > give you some more insight into what I have already tried with the PS3 Eye > (along with many others like Matthew) and what we have learned. Its also > chock-full of great references on the topic. > > Right now, I am considering this a DRAFT as I have not gone back through > to make sure that all the commands I pasted will work verbatim. If you're > pretty comfortable in Linux, I'm sure this is enough for you to replicate > what I have done. > > I wrote it up in LaTeX, as that was the easiest for me, so here it is in > both PDF and HTML format. > > Best of luck. If you end up taking a look at this, please let me know if > you have any comments or suggestions for improvement. > > -Mike > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:52 PM, rh_ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:41:14 -0500 >> Matthew Witherwax <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Richard, >> > >> > Please see the post >> > http://blog.lemoneerlabs.com/post/BBB-webcamsconcerning the PS3Eye, >> > C920, and frame rates. I believe it will answer >> > your questions. >> >> Ok it seems that OpenCV is the limiter. But the camera is significant. >> I like the idea of using a USB camera due to low cost. But I dont like >> it due to limited features. However the limitations of cheap USB might >> be overcome by using two cameras. Although only to a small degree. >> Probably need a camera cape to get at the camera features. And a >> feature-full camera. I am thinking of repurposing a video camera >> as most have lots of features but are fairly cheap. >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/G5Xs2JuwD_4/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/G5Xs2JuwD_4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
