Summary
Requirements for starting a Volumetric Capture project using Intel® RealSense D415 Cameras
Description
Questions regarding the Volumetric Capture example from the Intel® RealSense™ Blog.
- Can I start with 8 RealSense cameras and increase the number if the quality is not the best? (On our project we will need a very high depth quality)
- If I will use 8 RealSense cameras, can I use only 2 workstations?
- If I will use 8 RealSense, 8 AaeonUp Boards and 1 master PC, will it work?
- Where can I find the multi pointcloud example used in the project from the blog?
- Can I stream multi pointcloud in real time?
Resolution
- Correct. The more cameras you use, the more of the scene can be captured.
- For Intel's demo, they connected one PC powered by an Intel Core i7 processor per camera.
- This is because of the high processing power required to do Volumetric Capture.
- You can connect more than one camera to a PC if you have enough processing power on the PC.
- We believe that an AaeonUp Board may not have the processing power required for this solution.
- Notice that Intel used very powerful PCs, one per camera.
- You will want to test this very carefully.
- As the blog states, Intel used a modified version of the Intel RealSense Viewer, which is part of the free, open-source Intel RealSense SDK 2.0, also known as librealsense to record the footage.
- Intel does not release the modified version of the RealSense Viewer.
- Real-time streaming is not possible due to the high bandwidth and processing requirements to create the composite point clouds. The processing cannot be done quickly enough without dropping frames.