Where: Exhibit Hall ET 2
Date: Day 2
Start Time: 4:20 pm
End Time: 4:50 pm
Camera device drivers are a critical component for all embedded vision systems, providing an essential interface between the camera and the application software. In this talk, we’ll begin by examining the key challenges associated with camera drivers for embedded vision systems. We will then introduce two approaches to camera drivers: one based on V4L2 (a popular Linux API), and one based on GenICam (a formal standard created for the industrial machine vision space). We’ll examine the pros and cons of these two approaches, and present a hybrid solution that combines support for both V4L2 and GenICam in a single driver. Such a driver is included as part of the software stack provided with Allied Vision’s Alvium embedded vision cameras. We will introduce these Alvium cameras and illustrate how the hybrid driver can be used to enable developers to utilize the best capabilities of both V4L2 and GeniCam APIs, while minimizing integration effort.
