[faust1706]

We do it in every condition. it doesnt matter. To test, we did every hallway at the high school, the gyms, and put up stage lights, still works, unless the stage lights are pointed at the kinect, then it blinds us. That is why the program doesnt work well outside when sunny. I used OpenCV's libraries with a Microsoft Kinect. This year, my mentor suggested saturating the targets with more IR light to help, and we tested it and it does make a huge difference. I hated using axis cameras. They were cheap and the fps was garbage. For the kinect, it is 30 fps if it only captures an rgb image, with my program, it runs a little under 27. I would invest in different hardware. 1706 will be attending the St louis Regional and the Terra Houte (pardon my spelling) regionals. If you are there, I'd love to explain it for you. I wrote a paper about last year's vision program for state symposium, and am going to ISWEEEP in Houston for a week to compete at internationals. I have a part of it posted as a doc on here. Feel free to take a look. (Cant give away all my secrets, sorry, the teacher that sponsers robotics wants me to patent it)