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asked 2014-10-16 18:41:17 -0600

Giza gravatar image

I have written a subscriber to one of the image topics and I have set my buffer to 1 using:

subscriber =rospy.Subscriber("/camera/rgb/image_mono/compressed",CompressedImage, callback, queue_size=1)

However my subscriber still lags behind. Any idea what might be causing this? Am I setting the queue size correctly?

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How much lag are you seeing? How are you measuring it?

ahendrix gravatar image ahendrix  ( 2014-10-16 19:59:06 -0600 )edit

Does it also lag if you display the pointcloud in RViz?

BennyRe gravatar image BennyRe  ( 2014-10-17 02:22:48 -0600 )edit

@ahendrix Its about 5 to 10 seconds of lag. Basically when I look at the screen it shows images of things that happened 5 to 10 swconds ago.

Giza gravatar image Giza  ( 2014-10-17 11:00:35 -0600 )edit

@BennyRe I tried it on on image_view and theres no lag but that is because I do a lot of processing on the image before I display it (cv2.imshow) . Now I cannot process at the rate that the publisher is publishing and so what I want to do is drop any messages that arrive while I am processing.

Giza gravatar image Giza  ( 2014-10-17 11:22:23 -0600 )edit

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answered 2014-10-17 11:55:15 -0600

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It sounds like the lag you're seeing is caused by the image processing that you're doing.

If you're seeing one new image displayed by your algorithm every 5-10 seconds, then it's probably working properly, and the lag you see is the result of your processing time.

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That's right! And by the time Im done processing some time would have passed!! So in terms of viewing the data Ill always be behind..

Giza gravatar image Giza  ( 2014-10-17 13:21:01 -0600 )edit

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