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OpenCV On Raspberry Pi2: Camera Resolution

asked 2016-03-30 12:46:15 -0600

djme gravatar image

Hi Folks, I asked this question a few days ago on the Raspberry Pi forums but have yet to receive a reply so I am hoping that there might be more expertise on the OpenCV forums to help.

I recently compiled/installed opencv 3.1 on my RPi2 and it works just fine. I had to do a bit of searching to find out how to activate the pi camera to get OpenCV to see it (by basically entering "sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2" into the terminal) but the only limitation I now have is that OpenCV commands to modify the camera resolution do not work. The camera is works perfectly fine with OpenCV but the resolution remains fixed at 640x480 despite attempts to change it with OpenCV code (the resolution can not be increased or even decreased).

For example:

std::cout<<cap.get(cv::CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)<<std::endl; //output: 640
cap.set(cv::CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH, 1080); //does not work
std::cout<<cap.get(cv::CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)<<std::endl; //output is still 640

Does anyone know how to get the camera/V4L driver to respond to OpenCV calls to change the camera resolution? The camera has a "CSi" interface and can be viewed on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-5MP-C...

Thanks, Djme.

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Hi Djme, If possible can you please share how did you enable pi cam to be used inside opencv, I know about raspicam and all but wanted to know is there a direct way. Thanks a lot for your answer :)

abhi0329 gravatar imageabhi0329 ( 2016-10-11 02:59:52 -0600 )edit

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answered 2016-03-31 07:17:42 -0600

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First, 1080 pixel wide image isn't standard, maybe that causes problems. Try 1280 or 1920 (and set both width and height).

Do you have libv4l-dev installed? Without this library I had problems changing camera resolution in OpenCV.

If this doesn't help, you can try the Raspicam library (http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/av...), it provides an OpenCV interface using the native mmal library. I tested it and it supports setting resolutions

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Thanks kbami. I set the image width as 1920 and the image height as 1080 and this worked fine!

djme gravatar imagedjme ( 2016-04-03 08:55:12 -0600 )edit
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answered 2018-07-08 22:49:25 -0600

jordan314 gravatar image

For me, I had to hard-code DEFAULT_V4L_WIDTH and DEFAULT_V4L_HEIGHT and recompile OpenCV to get higher resolutions due to a bug in OpenCV. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...

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