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Learning ROS for Robotics Programming Second Edition学习笔记(五) indigo computer vision

FireWire IEEE1394 cameras无

USB cameras
--sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-usb-cam
--roslaunch chapter5_tutorials usb_cam.launch view:=true
--roslaunch usb_cam usb_cam-test.launch

launch文件中的"pixel_format"参数要根据摄像头种类设定，mjpeg类型和yuyv类型，若出现"Webcam: expected picture but didn't get it..."请考虑修改类型pixel_format参数。

camera_calibration
--http://wiki.ros.org/camera_calibration
--https://github.com/ros-perception/image_pipeline/tree/indigo
Visual Servoing: 
--http://wiki.ros.org/vision_visp
--https://github.com/lagadic/vision_visp
Augmented Reality: 
--http://wiki.ros.org/ar_pose
--https://github.com/ar-tools/ar_tools
Perception and object recognition:
--http://wiki.ros.org/roboearth
--https://github.com/wg-perception/object_recognition_core
Visual odometry:
--http://wiki.ros.org/fovis_ros
--https://github.com/srv/fovis
Viso2:
--https://github.com/srv/viso2
--http://wiki.ros.org/viso2

例子没有硬件，没有试。