Testing Vision Tracking w/ Webcam?

[ntm739182]

I understand that you could use the axis camera without the robot, my problem is that I don't have an axis camera at home... Our axis camera is team property and I wouldn't feel comfortable taking that home because I live about a half an hour away from where our team meets. In addition to that, I think it'd be nice to have a function so that in future projects, I wouldn't have to rely on having access to some camera that isn't mine.
Please, if ANYONE knows a way to capture live webcam feed that can be wired into other functions, please let me know! =D

[Greg McKaskle]

What I'd suggest is setting up a bit of field and saving a few dozen images into a folder. Keep pretty good notes of how they were taken and where the camera was (height, distance, etc.) You may also find it useful to have a tape measure in the images.

Then your image processing can be carried out on the folder of images. Vision Assistant makes it easy to do this. It is also easy to build a program that calls your image processing VI, passing in the one from the camera or file, depending on the circumstance.

Greg McKaskle

[wilsonmw04]

greetings,

Finally got the camera working after the update. I can see a live feed of the camera but I can't seem to save any of these images to start testing the tracking feature. Where does the assistant save the images by default?

[Greg McKaskle]

When I hit the save button in vision assistant, it starts at the computer drive list. So, it doesn't have much of a default and depended on the user to pick a directory.

Greg McKaskle

[wilsonmw04]

that's what I thought, but when I save it to the desktop the files aren't there. Also I have tried to "save to browser" with no success. I must be doing something wrong...