Philips SPC 900 NC - OpenCV Webcam demonstration

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Introduction

These programs demonstrate how to use the Philips SPC 900 NC webcam with its features (gain control, shutter speed, ...) along with the OpenCV library. This could be useful to anybody who is doing computer vision and wants to run a low budget but high quality CCD web camera (the SPC 900 NC) under Linux with small efforts. If you find this package useful please put a link to my site http://www.rainsoft.de and let me know for what you are using it.

Installation

Step 1: Download the package

Download the package files from http://www.rainsoft.de/projects/pwc.html

Step 2: Extract the package

Extract the webcam package to your home directory.

Step 3: Check for OpenCV and ffmpeg

Check if you have installed OpenCV and ffmpeg properly. For details refer to http://rainsoft.de/projects/ffmpeg_opencv.html

Step 4: Correct paths

This package assumes that the OpenCV include files are accessible in /usr/local/include/opencv. If this is not the case you will have to modify the Makefile. cv.h, highgui.h must be accessible directly by the compiler. Likewise The libraries cv, cvaux, cxcore, highgui are assumed to be found. This should be Ok for normal OpenCV installations. For me it works with Ubuntu 7.04 and OpenCV 1.0.

Step 5: Build the project

Build the demo files grabber_demo, simple_demo and canny_demo using make. You can use make clean to clean the project.

Step 6: Have fun

For more details visit http://www.rainsoft.de/projects/pwc.html
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