Using usb camera in android

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asked 2013-03-28 22:26:40 -0600

ryan0270
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I would like to connect a usb camera (e.g. Point Gray Firefly) to my phone for image processing. The phone supports usb on-the-go so that part is covered, but I'm not sure how to actually get the images since vendors don't have android drivers out.

Does anyone know if the opencv camera wrapper libraries are able to do this?

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answered 2013-03-29 02:11:10 -0600

Alexander Smorkalov

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Camera access method depends on drivers. If camera driver is integrated to Android camera stack, then it will be available through standard Java API and through native camera wrappers. If it does not support such integration the only solution is to try V4L. OpenCV does not support V4L on Android and library code modifications are needed (Highgui module).