Capture images from optical flow
Hi,
I wonder how I can capture images, say 5 fps from this tutorial code I found:
import cv2
import numpy as np
cap = cv2.VideoCapture("myvideo.avi")
ret, frame1 = cap.read()
prvs = cv2.cvtColor(frame1,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
hsv = np.zeros_like(frame1)
hsv[...,1] = 255
while(1):
ret, frame2 = cap.read()
next = cv2.cvtColor(frame2,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
flow = cv2.calcOpticalFlowFarneback(prvs,next, 0.5, 3, 15, 3, 5, 1.2, 0)
mag, ang = cv2.cartToPolar(flow[...,0], flow[...,1])
hsv[...,0] = ang*180/np.pi/2
hsv[...,2] = cv2.normalize(mag,None,0,255,cv2.NORM_MINMAX)
rgb = cv2.cvtColor(hsv,cv2.COLOR_HSV2BGR)
cv2.imshow('frame2',rgb)
k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xff
if k == 27:
break
elif k == ord('s'):
cv2.imwrite('opticalfb.png',frame2)
cv2.imwrite('opticalhsv.png',rgb)
prvs = next
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
it will depend heavily on how long your Optical Flow is requiring. Cant you just like save each 5 frames or so? Does it have to be 5 FPS exactly? Try working with the value inside the waitKey operator.