Using PoE cameras?

[Corey-PT]

Is it possible to use PoE cameras with this software? My set-up consists of 8 Flir PoE cameras using a ethernet to USB adaptor to connect to my laptop.

[mprib]

@Corey-PT,

The current live camera management works through OpenCV and has only been tested with standard webcams. My guess is this will not work with the cameras you describe, but I could be wrong.

I'm currently in the midst of building out an interface to perform the calibration entirely with pre-recorded footage which will allow a far more camera agnostic approach. My goal is to have this done by the end of the month.

The drawback of this approach is that the synchronization of frames will need to be done in a separate process. Integrating a more automated approach to frame sync is on my roadmap, but this is a non-trivial task that I need to reflect on. I'm hoping to collect suggestions related to that here: #496

One other consideration for your cameras: Flir images may require their own 2D tracking function. Mediapipe is currently used as a stand-in proof-of-concept for the pyxy3d pipeline, but its performance may break down with a different image type. But if you can get a function that will take an image is an input and return a list of 2D points as an output, it can be integrated into the flow of information.

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