Interested in Simple Image Processing w/ a CCD Camera

From: Justin Credible (dklin_at_ucla.edu)
Date: 10/25/04


Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:31:55 -0700

Hi everyone,

I literally have no real experience with image processing. My goal is to
though, to build an autonomous model car that will follow a white line.
I'm going to be using optical sensors but I also wanted to add a CCD
camera.

That way, the car could tell how long the track is or when the next turn
is coming up and whatnot.

I was thinking this would be accomplished by gathering data by using a
monochrome CCD camera. The the image processing that we would be doing
would basically consist of counting the pixels horizantly, finding the
width of the white line, then finding where the mid point is. then
moving up one pixel and doing the same thing. eventually we'll have a
line of midpoints. i hope that makes sense.

anyways, i can't seem to find any tutorials about this. i don't even
know where to start for the camera as well. all i know is that the
vertical resoltuion will be more important than the horizantal and that
we want a digital output. we are using a ATmega128 microcontroller.

Thank you for your help!

Dave



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Help: a handheld image processing device
    ... What simple image processing could it be done by FPGA/DSP? ... What kinds of camera ... Why not do a direct camera interface from a camera chip? ... 1.The image is about particles such as dust etc. ...
    (comp.arch.embedded)
  • Re: cmos camera with a pic
    ... i dont need to do any kind of image processing i ... a 5MIPS PIC to sit between the camera and an external flash. ... 10 seconds to capture a frame). ...
    (comp.arch.embedded)
  • Re: CCD / CMOS affordable camera kits???
    ... >I am trying to get up to speed in Digital Image Processing based on ... >I am having hard time finding a camera kit with VGA ... Why when most of these are one chip sensors, and a lot of the Omnivision ... >to read raw image data from the sensor and figure out how to ...
    (comp.arch.embedded)
  • Re: Image processing engines in digital cameras
    ... manufacturers has image processing system that they use to capture the ... With the digital camera this is even more so. ... extremely very) good job processing the pictures. ... But in the medium size a complex algoritm has to be used to ...
    (rec.photo.digital)
  • Help: a handheld image processing device
    ... I was asked to design and implement a handheld image processing device. ... function of the device is that the camera captures an image,then do some ...
    (comp.arch.embedded)