OpenCV and Android NDK - setting camera Exposure

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Hi, I'm having problems setting camera propertie EXPOSURE..

This is my code:

vt1->capture = cvCaptureFromCAM( CV_CAP_ANDROID + vt1->cam_device); cvSetCaptureProperty(vt1->capture, CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE, -2);

but if I print out camera EXPOSURE like this:

LOGI("EXPOSURE = %d", cvGetCaptureProperty(vt1->capture, CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE));

it doesn't give me "-2", it gives me "0". Is it possible that camera manufacturer made it impossible to change exposure settings? It is possible to change exposure from built-in camera application, but I can't do it through OpenCV. Device is HTC ONE X

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answered Mar 1 '13

Alexander Smorkalov

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Android uses its own camera access stack and its own camera capabilities that depends from device. VideoCapture class supports some of them (listed bellow), but its support is contributed by 3rd party developed and is sill on experimental state.

Constants for Android camera properties from opencv2/highgui/highgui_c.h file:

// Properties for Android cameras
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_FLASH_MODE = 8001,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_FOCUS_MODE = 8002,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_WHITE_BALANCE = 8003,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_ANTIBANDING = 8004,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_FOCAL_LENGTH = 8005,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_FOCUS_DISTANCE_NEAR = 8006,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_FOCUS_DISTANCE_OPTIMAL = 8007,
CV_CAP_PROP_ANDROID_FOCUS_DISTANCE_FAR = 8008,

You can add exposure correction to VideoCapture class and contribute it to OpenCV via Gtihub pull request or alternatively use Java Camera. See Tutorial3-Camera Control sample, as an example of direct camera control.

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answered Mar 1 '13

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I assume that the Java wrapper has the same functionality as the native code.

Given that and according to Java API documentation you can only set the width and height properties of the capture. Description of get states that

When querying a property that is not supported by the backend used by the "VideoCapture" class, value 0 is returned.

The same sentence can be found at the C++ documentation of get.

From the above I think that you cannot set the exposure.

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