Image processing for vision tracking: blacka and white, or color?

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Flak-Bait

I've seen many teams using full-color, high-res displays. 78 Air Strike and 341 Miss Daisy both have very good color vision tracking, just to name two.



B/W takes less processing power, and is (as I hear, I'm not a programmer) easier to code. However, even B/W maxes out the processing power of our cRIO, causing us to offload the calculations to the laptop. So, even though B/W tracking takes up less processing power, it's a disadvantage that it can't be run on the cRIO. If someone knows how to, please let 1058 know!

The other disadvantage of running black/white is a worse camera feed for the driver and operator. This doesn't matter, however, if you use two or more cameras.

Good luck!

The cRio was perfectly capable of doing vision processing for the game this year. You just need to remember that you only need ONE good image, and you only need to do your calculations once to know where to aim.

Trying to do real time 30 FPS calculations is un-needed.

The time to process a single color frame at medium resolution is under .25 seconds.