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    wilkinsaf
    ModalAI Team
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    Hello,

    We were curious if there is a way to integrate a color tracking camera (or if there is even a color tracking camera that exists).
    The reason being, is that for extremely small UAVs it would be ideal to have 1 tracking camera that is

    1. being used for VIO
    2. being used as the FPV cam
    3. Being used to collect data of surroundings

    But, to be used as an FPV cam and data collection the camera would have to be color.

    Thank you!

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    • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

      Hello,

      We were curious if there is a way to integrate a color tracking camera (or if there is even a color tracking camera that exists).
      The reason being, is that for extremely small UAVs it would be ideal to have 1 tracking camera that is

      1. being used for VIO
      2. being used as the FPV cam
      3. Being used to collect data of surroundings

      But, to be used as an FPV cam and data collection the camera would have to be color.

      Thank you!

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      wilkinsaf
      ModalAI Team
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      @wilkinsaf

      A color AR0144 exists, but there is no current integration readily available

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      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

        @wilkinsaf

        A color AR0144 exists, but there is no current integration readily available

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        jakkkkobo
        Contributor
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        #3

        Hello @wilkinsaf,

        Do you know where I can find that integration/implementation for color output on the AR 0144?

        Thank you!

        Regards,
        Jacob

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        • J jakkkkobo

          Hello @wilkinsaf,

          Do you know where I can find that integration/implementation for color output on the AR 0144?

          Thank you!

          Regards,
          Jacob

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          Alex Kushleyev
          ModalAI Team
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          @jakkkkobo , the color AR0144 support (very basic) is in voxl-camera-server: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/services/voxl-camera-server/-/blob/master/src/hal3_camera_mgr.cpp?ref_type=heads#L1405 (PerCameraMgr::ProcessAR0144ColorFrame).

          Once you connect the color version of the AR0144 camera, just change the camera type from ar0144 to ar0144-color in voxl-camera-server.conf. Then camera server will publish the raw bayer (8 bit), mono and RGB (not yuv) images.

          If there still interest in using the color version of AR0144, we can develop the code further to follow our standard color camera pipeline:

          • debayer on GPU
          • add LSC correction for R, G and B
          • output YUV
          • add encoded video output

          Right now the implementation is very basic, just for simple testing.

          Alex

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          • Alex KushleyevA Alex Kushleyev

            @jakkkkobo , the color AR0144 support (very basic) is in voxl-camera-server: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/services/voxl-camera-server/-/blob/master/src/hal3_camera_mgr.cpp?ref_type=heads#L1405 (PerCameraMgr::ProcessAR0144ColorFrame).

            Once you connect the color version of the AR0144 camera, just change the camera type from ar0144 to ar0144-color in voxl-camera-server.conf. Then camera server will publish the raw bayer (8 bit), mono and RGB (not yuv) images.

            If there still interest in using the color version of AR0144, we can develop the code further to follow our standard color camera pipeline:

            • debayer on GPU
            • add LSC correction for R, G and B
            • output YUV
            • add encoded video output

            Right now the implementation is very basic, just for simple testing.

            Alex

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            Alex Kushleyev
            ModalAI Team
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            also see discussion here : https://forum.modalai.com/topic/4491/ar0144-rgb-output-on-voxl2/

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            • Alex KushleyevA Alex Kushleyev

              @jakkkkobo , the color AR0144 support (very basic) is in voxl-camera-server: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/services/voxl-camera-server/-/blob/master/src/hal3_camera_mgr.cpp?ref_type=heads#L1405 (PerCameraMgr::ProcessAR0144ColorFrame).

              Once you connect the color version of the AR0144 camera, just change the camera type from ar0144 to ar0144-color in voxl-camera-server.conf. Then camera server will publish the raw bayer (8 bit), mono and RGB (not yuv) images.

              If there still interest in using the color version of AR0144, we can develop the code further to follow our standard color camera pipeline:

              • debayer on GPU
              • add LSC correction for R, G and B
              • output YUV
              • add encoded video output

              Right now the implementation is very basic, just for simple testing.

              Alex

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              jakkkkobo
              Contributor
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              #6

              @Alex-Kushleyev , thank you for the insights!

              I will try the basic version and see if it suits our industrial solution on field.
              If it fits I ask for the full version.

              Regards,
              Jacob

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