Camera in Grayscale

[adciv]

It's compressing to JPG before transmission across the network. That said, this will still reduce bandwidth requirement (although how much would require testing).

Before going this route, I'd recommend looking at reducing the resoultion & framerate if possible. I'm curious as to what is currently being used and what is required.

[Turing'sEgo]

Originally Posted by adciv

Before going this route, I'd recommend looking at reducing the resoultion & framerate if possible. I'm curious as to what is currently being used and what is required.

Another option would be to convert to HSV and then select which channel you want to process. That way you are still retaining information from RGB at 1/3 the data.

[adciv]

I'd still be leery about that. The HD3000 can output images in JPG directly and use internal hardware compression. Any sort of post processing on the roboRIO would require compressing the image on the roboRIO and this will use up significant processor resources.

[Greg McKaskle]

To echo adciv. Potential options are great. But test them, as the real world isn't obliged to work the way you expected.

Greg McKaskle

[James Juncker]

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.