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Originally Posted by controls weenie
Marshal, how did you get the camera to output more than 30 Hz? What camera and OS did you use on the jetson. The PCDuino/Linux driver would only read at 30Hz. We would crop our image to get the higher frame rates.
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We got our framerate higher by dropping the resolution. Most webcams from logitech/MS seem to support dropping the resolution to up the framerate above 30 FPS. I think it's a logitech C920 we are using but I'm not certain. The OS is the stock ubuntu that comes on the board. It has been updated to the latest versions and we are using the latest stable OpenCV and the latest CUDA for Jetson from Nvidia (6.0, not 6.5 yet

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Honestly though, beyond 30FPS doesn't seem to help as much as higher resolution does. We're happy to trade one for the other. At least for what we are working on. We want more precise targeting and distance calculations.
Right now the team is working on just basic object tracking using a crappy video I shot with the webcam of a co-worker juggling some red balls. The lighting was complete crap so the students are having to do a lot of processing to figure out the lighting, which is good because that will hopefully make them better at figuring it out come competition.
I had no idea about the PS3 eye. I own one of those so maybe I'll bring it in for the students to experiment with but as I mentioned, FPS isn't a big deal.