Industrial GigE camera with OpenCV
Hello everyone!
I've delevoped a real-time object detection and counting solution for an industrial application. To validate the method, we've used just a webcam, with YOLOV3 and OpenCV (to capture the video streaming). The method worked quite well.
The question is, now I need an industrial robust camera, which works in temperature and umidity conditions. Can I work with GigE cameras in this scenario with OpenCV, like this one?
https://www.ato.com/gige-industrial-c...
Or is there it a more suitable type of camera in this situation?
Thank you.
Regards.
Yes, you can use pretty much every industrial camera (GigE or USB3). There are several trustworthy camera builders, I would add Basler, PointGrey and uEye to the list.
OpenCV has some basic support for GigE cameras, but I suggest to use their native API to get full control over the camera. The APIs are generally in C++ and don't have direct OpenCV bindings, but it's easy to convert the grabbed buffer to
cv::Mat.