2016 Summer Project Week/CameraTutorial

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Key Investigators

• Peter Behringer
• Santhirarajah Mathimugan
• Steve Pieper

Project Description

Objective

• a tutorial that explains:
  • a) how to connect a dart USB camera from Basler to a PC
  • b) grab the images
  • c) write a simple program in C++ for simple object detection.

Approach, Plan

• Investigate and document examples for
  • how to control camera parameters from C++ and python
  • how to send images over OpenIGTLink
  • how to interface with OpenCV
  • how to interface with VTK
  • how to integrate a Basler camera in Slicer and make a custom Slicelet
• Develop a plan for the tutorial
  • identify target audience
  • define high priority topics
  • create learning objectives and prerequisite list
  • decide on best publishing method (wiki page? ppt?)
  • make plans for evaluating and improving content based on trainee feedback

Progress

• Productive discussions and demos
  • time of flight range camera
  • HD cameras
  • C++ API and relation to utility software configuration
  • Integration of C++ API with OpenCV for object detection
• First pass of tutorial slides
  • Part 1: controlling cameras and capturing images
  • Part 2: analysing images with OpenCV
  • Part 3: sending images and/or tracked object data via OpenIGTLink