max value of /camera/depth/image_raw is 8 bit 256 not 16bit!?
i'm running ros diamondback.
Documentation states that is should be uint16 to represent mm. So i'm expecting values two bytes long, but instead all I get is values one byte long, max of 256! I require the depth values so I can know how far an object is, that is all I need, I dont need to work with any other library. I have searched and searched for days and cannot find a proper solution!
So again, all i need is a registered depth value image, I want to be able to get the value and calculate the distance in that pixel.
depth/image_raw (sensor_msgs/Image)
Raw image from device. Contains uint16 depths in mm.
what to do? thanks
Please list the output from "rostopic echo /depth/image_raw/encoding"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/maltenrazer/kinect_depth.png .. I used cout << image.get()->encoding << "\n"; to get the encoding output
I have a bizarre problem where the left top and right edges are completely black any ideas? I have tried turning on and off depth registration by using rosparam get /openni_node1/depth_registration to see if it has an effect, but no help.