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antimatter15
antimatter15

Reputation: 1456

Compensate for Auto White Balance with OpenCV

I'm working on an app that takes in webcam data, applies various transformations, blurs and then does a background subtraction and threshold filter. It's a type of optical touch screen retrofitting system (the design is so different that tbeta/touchlib can't be used).

The camera's white balance is screwing up the threshold filter by brightening everything whenever a user's hand is seen and darkening when it leaves, causing one of those to exhibit immense quantities of static.

Is there a good way to counteract it? Is taking a corner, assuming it's constant and adjusting the rest of the image's brightness so that it stays constant a good idea?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5063

Answers (1)

Adi
Adi

Reputation: 1316

You could try interfacing your camera through DirectShow and turn off Auto White Balance through your code or you could try first with the camera software deployed with it. It often gives you ability to do certain modifications as white balance and similar stuff.

Upvotes: 1

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