CMUcam2

The CMUcam2 is the successor to the popular CMUcam. It was developed by Anthony Rowe, Chuck Rosenberg, and Illah Nourbakhsh.

Some capabilities (from the CMUcam2 website):

• Track user defined color blobs at up to 50 Frames Per Second (frame rate depends on resolution and window size settings)
• Track motion using frame differencing at 26 Frames Per Second
• Find the centroid of any tracking data
• Gather mean color and variance data
• Gather a 28 bin histogram of each color channel
• Process Horizontally Edge Filtered Images
• Transfer a real-time binary bitmap of the tracked pixels in an image
• Arbitrary image windowing
• Image Down Sampling
• Adjust the camera's image properties
• Dump a raw image (single or multiple channels)
• Up to 176 x 255 Resolution
• Supports baudrates of: 115,200 57,600 38,400 19,200 9,600 4,800 2,400 1,200
• Control 5 servo outputs
• Slave parallel image processing mode off of a single camera bus
• Automatically use servos to do two axis color tracking
• B/W Analog video output (PAL or NTSC, depending on camera module used)
• Flexible output packet customization
• Power Down Mode
• Multiple pass image processing on a buffered image
• Works with the newer OV7620 camera module
• Yes, it is backward compatible with your current OV6620 camera module!

The CMUcam2 is succeeded by the CMUcam3?.

The CMUcam3 can emulate the CMUcam2. For more information about CMUcam2 emulation see the cmucam2-emulation page.