saurabheights / nerian-vision-software

Development repository for Nerian's vision software release

Vision Software Release

Overview

This software release comprises the following subprojects:

• libvisiontransfer: A C++ API for communicating with Allied Vision's stereo vision sensor systems.

• libvisiontransfer/python: Cython-based Python wrapper of libvisiontransfer for Python 3; contains Python examples.

• nvcom: A client application that provides a live display of the depth data that is delivered by Allied Vision's devices. This application depends on libvisiontransfer.

• gentl-producer: A GenICam GenTL compatible producer module. Use this module for integrating Allied Vision's devices into existing applications that act as GenTL consumers, such as HALCON or MATLAB.

Please see the respective subdirectories for further documentation.

Installation

Please use CMake to compile the software for Linux. If you are using Windows, then we recommend to download a pre-compiled binary release. If you are compiling NVCom, please make sure that you have the libraries OpenCV and Qt installed.

You can build each submodule separately from their respective subdirectories. To build all software at once, please enter the following commands in the top-level directory:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

After compilation you can use the applications and libraries directly from the created subdirectories bin/ and lib/. Alternatively you can perform a system wide installation. For installation please use the following command:

$ sudo make install

Optional Python module: Note that the extension will only be built if the dependencies are met: Python 3 and "pip install Cython numpy wheel" may be required first. Use easy-install then to install the egg inside python3-egg, or use pip/pip3 on modern installations to install the extension to your user directory.

$ cd python3-wheel
$ pip install *.whl

Optional Open3D support for NVCom: If Open3D is not installed in the default search paths, the internal 3D point cloud display mode in NVCom is disabled. For Open3D >=0.15 you must include the following options in its CMake config to build a working library (either shared or static) for NVCom:

-DGLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=ON -DBUILD_GUI=OFF
-DBUILD_WEBRTC=OFF -DENABLE_HEADLESS_RENDERING=ON

Contact

For further information please contact Allied Vision Technologies GmbH at:

Email: info (at) alliedvision.com
Website: https://www.alliedvision.com

Address:
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
Taschenweg 2a
07646 Stadtroda
Germany