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Originally Posted by CJay
We have the green LED ring around our camera, but the reflective tape looks pretty much white in the image that the camera is giving to the driverstation, we are not really sure what is going on and any advice/suggestions are appreciated!
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I'll assume you are using the Axis camera from a previous year's KoP.
Reflective tape returns a substantial proportion of the source light so under many conditions it causes saturation of the image. In this context
saturation means that the signals representing the components of the image are limited. For example with green LED illumination the signal from the green sensor could hit the maximum limit of the camera sensor and be capped while the blue & red signals are much lower and are not limited. That would result in the final appearing less green. In extreme cases all three signals hit the limit so the image appears white.
There are a couple of tricks to avoid saturation: decreasing the brightness and setting a fast exposure.
Happily the procedure for both of these tasks for the Axis camera was described in the
Vision Processing section of the 2013 WPIlib documentation. The whole document is well worth reading, but for your specific question check the section on Exposure towards the bottom of the
Camera Settings page.