Is OpenCV GigE Vision and GenIcam Compatible

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It would be nice to have a GenICam interface in OpenCV like Halcon and other CV libs have. Maybe any GSOC can be started on this focus in the future.

Ah well, find a student, find a mentor and suggest it in the next GSoC application round :)

But then again, even point grey suggests for example using their own backend and then encapsulate the data correctly: https://eu.ptgrey.com/support/downloa...

Sure native API gives more and specific options in special case of non compliant or special camera features.

Mostly, native API are written on top of GenICam. It would be great to see the generic programming interface provided by GenICam for all kind of cameras (Eth,USB,Cl,1394,...) available in OpenCV. This would give access to all GenICam compliant cameras without change source code.

I currently working with GenICam interface. It look is not so hard to import it in OpenCV...maybe a couple of volunteer are enough :)

@pklab do you know the proper steps to implement the two together? Also could it be done without becoming a member and using the on site downloads? I am using visual studio 2012 and C++