Dual Cameras - Dual Purposes

[faust1706]

Originally Posted by Invictus3593

I had heard that you could only do 2 camera feeds in c++, but obviously that's not true.

I had one other question. I had heard that the Kinect has an accelerometer in it and I was wondering if anyone has tried to use an accelerometer to compute where their robot is on the field. It may be a fun idea to collaborate on, if no one has done it yet! If there's enough interest, I'll create another thread for this idea, just let me know!

It is very possible to show 3 camera feeds in c++( 2 from the kinect, 1 from a webcam), and c for the matter. I could send you a really good demo program that I wrote for our team meeting last week to teach our new programmers about openCV/computer vision. Pm me and I'll send it to you. It's kind of long (~100ish lines) so it'd really stretch out this post and would be obnoxious.

You're right about the kinect having an accelerometer, but I honest have no idea how to call for it's reading. I emailed my mentor that helps me with vision programming and he sent me this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bWpE4tm-o. it doesn't give any info in the description, but the fact that is has been done is encouraging I don't know much about the kinect sdk, so I can't help you there.

Instead of using the accelerometer , we use a gyro for orientation. What we have been working on is using our vision solution instead of a gyro, or as a check for it at the very least. To do this for all 6 desired values, x y and z displacement, and pitch roll yaw, I'd suggest using pose. I digress, however. I would love to work on a project like this with anyone interested (that is, using the accelerometer readings in the kinect)