Hi,

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: owner-artoolkit@h .................. [mailto:owner-
> artoolkit@h ..................] Per conto di Ulrich Schwanecke
> Inviato: gioved=EC 18 agosto 2005 18.42
> A: artoolkit@h ..................
> Oggetto: Generic web cam interface
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> Hi all,
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> I like to learn more about  computer vision and AR techniques.
> Therefor I'm looking for a generic web cam interface in order
> to write some platform independent code using python.  Does anyone
> know a python wrapper for a generic web cam interface?
> I like to write programms on Windows as well as Linux and Mac OS X,
> using the same web cam interface.
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> I'm not familar with ARToolkit, but as far as I understood ARToolkit
> provides such  a generic web cam interface, but I only the
> this interface not the whole AR functionality (camera calibration,
> tracking, ...). So does has an idea or know some further links for
> a generic web cam interface wrapper for python, in order to write
> some quick computer vision, image processing, AR, ... code.



as far as I understood ARToolKit has no support
for any camera input. ARToolKit is just a very
low level API for marker detection based on
image data. How you get that image data is=20
another story. There are several libraries=20
that do that, for every platform there is a different
lib unfortunately. There are some efforts to make this
platform independent (best bet is OpenML, www.khronos.org),
but they are not very mature and things seem to be
stucked somehow.=20
For Windows there is Thomas Pintaric's library,
for Linux there is video4linux, for the Mac I=20
don't know (will be something you can do
with just on click :) ...


Regards,

	Toni