Re:The Camera Is the Lidar
by sbr464 on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:54AM
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I built a hacky prototype, combining:
- FLIR thermal camera
- 3 different small cameras manually set at different settings, models chosen for their qualities handling light levels.
Those 4 live feeds were fed into a small black magic design quad layout device, that turned them into a single hd feed via hardware/real-time. That was fed into a hardware capture, that stacked the quad arrangement, applied some other filters and did hardware compression. At that point almost no latency was introduced but had a nice working base video feed. That was fed into the Linux box for processing.
The quad device created a sort of super hdr video, and the thermal layer took it to the next level. All of the cameras had drawbacks, but combined they were minimized.
- FLIR thermal camera
- 3 different small cameras manually set at different settings, models chosen for their qualities handling light levels.
Those 4 live feeds were fed into a small black magic design quad layout device, that turned them into a single hd feed via hardware/real-time. That was fed into a hardware capture, that stacked the quad arrangement, applied some other filters and did hardware compression. At that point almost no latency was introduced but had a nice working base video feed. That was fed into the Linux box for processing.
The quad device created a sort of super hdr video, and the thermal layer took it to the next level. All of the cameras had drawbacks, but combined they were minimized.