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Re: Camera in Grayscale

If you are trying to use a camera for vision tracking I don't know that this will be able to still vision track across a gray scale as it may confuse similar objects for the reflected light. If this is for a drive camera for driver vision going around obstacles, I would highly recommend keeping the camera in color so that you know what exactly you are looking at. the best option to reduce bandwidth would be dropping the frames to about 15 FPS and lowering the resolution to about half of the area the camera will take up on your screen. this way you are still able to visually use and see with the camera as well as being able to tell whether that is a blue or red robot charging at you and whether or not they will stop. If it still becomes a bandwidth issue you can always reduce the FPS or resolution further to make the FTA's and Others happy.

Feel free to try grayscale though if you can figure it out, but I don't think it will be as effective as reducing frames and resolution.
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