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i am using kinect in ROS. i am working with indigo, ubuntu 14.04. .. my doubt is how can i calculated depth of a point in image. My task is to locate a point in image using mouse and it will tell me the depth of that point.. i already installed openni, pcl. i am also confused of taking which topic i subscribe to calculate depth? please help me step by step.. language c++
The topic you are looking for is the depth/image_rect topic published by the openni stack, which you start via openni_launch (if you're using the kinect). This will be a rectified 2D image, with the intensity of the pixel representing the depth at that point.
As for displaying the image, try taking a look at the image_view node.
thanks a lot.... but this time i got a new problem... on indigo, i am not sure but openni is not installable....
If you're having issues installing openni, I'd suggest you open a new question, with some debug output to boot.
Here is a good place to start: http://wiki.ros.org/depth_image_proc You can also look at stereo_image_proc.
These packages will take in your camera (in your case kinect so refer to section 2.3 depth_image_proc/point_cloud_xyz) depth data, and produce a point cloud.
Its hard to say how you could receive that point with your mouse, because it depends on what your mouse will be hovering over, and where your reference x,y (0,0) mouse point will be. Are you creating your own UI which detects the mouse location with respect to that window? You also have to worry about scaling the image that you display in your UI, to be able to calculate where your mouse is on the UI (where it is hovering over the incoming picture) vs. where that point on the ACTUAL (i.e 680x400 pixel) image is.
But in reality, you could pretty much should (someone correct me if I'm wrong please) be able to grab that respective mouse x,y point you calculated in the point cloud array.
thanks for your reply.... my problem is little bit simple... i am going to detect a color ball from rgb image and and wanted to find out the depth of respective pixels.......... here i have to use two topics - one carrying 2d rgb image and another for depth.....
but my problem is identifying that topic which give me depth directly by point the (x,y) location.
Asked: 2014-09-11 23:36:49 -0500
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Last updated: Sep 12 '14
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