After playing with the CMUCam quite a bit, I noticed that the lighting only mattered when using the Java calibration utility. The only thing that the camera needs is a constant source of light, IE it could even be standard arc lighting and it would still work, as long as the lighting stayed that way. However, the only way to make this work was to bypass the Java utility's calibration and just use the raw RGB values from a captured frame.
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Originally Posted by Kingofl337
But, sometimes even that didn't work in general the Java CMU utility was horrible.
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I agree.
As an aside, the blue channel of the camera (not just the CMU board but the actual OmniVision module) is horrible. The amount of noise on that particular channel is just incredible. The blue tracker will not work with either of the two cameras I've tried due to the noise; has anyone else been able to get it to track blue?
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