WPILib Vision request for a proposal (looking for comments and implementors) about allwpilib

[PeterJohnson]

I'm working on a detailed api and proposal for the camera interface and robot side of dashboard streaming. Plan to support annotated images as well as camera settings etc. Image interface to robot code would be OpenCV based.

[virtuald]

I really like being able to stream images via HTTP, it's a lot more accessible than using a custom semi-documented protocol like it is now.

[jkoritzinsky]

What's the status of this right now? Any work towards a new Vision API in WPILib?

[PeterJohnson]

See my pull request above for a draft design doc for the API. I need to resubmit it against the design-docs repo. I've not done any implementation work yet however.

[PeterJohnson]

Current status: #352 has been merged, implementing the final piece of this. OpenCV is now bundled (instead of nivision) and the OpenCV-based cscore library is used for CameraServer. There's a few missing pieces (namely Ethernet camera support) but in general this is complete.

[SamCarlberg]

#388 Adds an API for running an OpenCV pipeline. Generated GRIP code will have the option of implementing the interface so it can slot in seamlessly.

[PeterJohnson]

This is effectively complete for 2017.