Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
>
> > A whole area of science that depend on image analyses (from microscopic
> > to astronomics) might like to include different programs to control
> > cameras. Some ideas:
>
> In general I like the idea to give the whole bunch of image acquistion
> programs some structure and give some guidelines which might be relevant
> for scientific purposes. But IMHO this would stretch the scope of
> dataacquisition to large and I would prefer a separate imageacqusition
> task. Well, I know images are data as well, but I think a split between
> numeric data and image data makes perfectly sense from a user point of
> view.
There might be some merit in an "ImageAnalysis" task as well (or
perhaps instead).
>
> So I'm open for suggestions if anybody wants to provide reasonable
> dependencies for a potential imageacqusition task.
>
> > Firewire/IEEE1394 kernel modules, libraries and the coriander program.
> > Though I have the impression that this interface is currently under
> > transition and not working properly with the Linux kernel currently
> > included in Debian/Unstable:
> > http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
> > Anyhow the Firewire interface (and coriander) support many cameras.
> >
> > Video4Linux: an apt-get search gave me a whole bunch of libraries and
> > applications, partly overlapping Firewire. Maybe only a part of it will
> > be sufficient.
Yes, I've recently tried and failed to get a webcam working.
>
> Yes. We should probably put some barrier here to suggest only those
> packages that are really useful for scientific research.
Completely agree. Groups other than scientists will have these
problems too - in fact surely there must be some other group in Debian
dealing with video cameras/webcams?
Chris
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