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This course will make use of the vision and robotics instructional
laboratory, room 1004 LAS.
To access the lab, ask the lab monitor
in 1004 to unlock the door for you. Facilities of relevance to this course
are as follows.
Hardware
The laboratory has 4 Linux workstations, gsp03, gsp12, gsp18 and gsp30 are equipped
with a camera and adjustable tripod. (There are additional workstations in lab;
however, they will not concern us.) Also available in the lab is a spotlight for providing a somewhat high intensity, directional source of illumination.
Software
Information regarding image capture from gsp03, gsp12, gsp18 and gsp30 can be found here.
Save images in home directory of the virtual machine that you are running, otherwise the images will be lost once logged out.
To display your captured images you can call the program animate (i.e., /cs/local/bin/animate). To display a single image in file imageName.pgm, call from the command line as
% animate imageName.pgm
To display a sequence of images with names of the form imageName*.pgm, call from the command line as
% animate imageName*.pgm
To see some of the options available with animate, place the cursor in the image display window and click the right mouse button.
% 4422
% man pgm
In a similar fashion, one can obtain information about the closely related
pbm and ppm image formats.