Question: Cheap multispectral camera

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by maykef | October 12, 2018 09:54 | #17281


Hi,

A couple of years ago I developed a multispectral camera based on the compute module of the Raspberry Pi. Hardware wise, the camera is pretty much done, and I'm planning to launch a campaign in Kickstarter to produce the final product.

Now, there is some work to be done in terms of data processing. So far, the camera captures images with the raw bayered data attached in a numpy array, which is demosaiced and then separated in 4 different bands and saved using opencv as a tiff image.

As expected, the raw, bayered, data is quite dark and has twice as many green pixels due to the raw format being rggb. I would like to know if there is someone who would like to collaborate improving the processing pipeline.

Below a test photograph I took sometime ago. I will follow up with some better pictures once I receive new lenses and NIR filters.

Regards,

Mayke

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It would be amazing if you could do this. I tried to capture RAW data but could never figure out how to de-mosaic, color balance and scale from 10 to 8 bits. Makes you appreciate everything the picamera does to make images/video .

One option to consider for post processing is image sequencer. I don’t think it accepts TIFF but its open source format makes it adaptable to new tasks. http://sequencer.publiclab.org/examples/#steps=

See below for an image sequence that tries to scale plants to green/blue and objects to yellow/red.
colormapraw.png

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Hi MaggPi,

Thanks for your comment. Picamera has a very simple de-mosaic algorithm. The way I've been analysing the images is by load them directly from the RPi into Matlab, where I further de-mosaic them, adjust the white balance and so on. Here you can see an example of a raw image processed in Matlab. I'm busy now installing opencv directly into the CM, which seems to be very straight forward but it's not. The 4GB size of the CM makes you very limited in terms of what you can install. IMG_0000_undistorted.tiff

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Hi! This is awesome. You can find some more on related projects at #pi-camera and #raspberry-pi-infragram

We're also working on a cool project to make RPi images easier to pregenerate for download - you should check it out! https://publiclab.org/n/17262

Would your workflow be possible using Image Sequencer? #image-sequencer

Thanks for sharing!!!

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Hi,

A couple of years ago I developed a multispectral camera based on the compute module of the Raspberry Pi. Hardware wise, the camera is pretty much done, and I'm planning to launch a campaign in Kickstarter to produce the final product.

Now, there is some work to be done in terms of data processing. So far, the camera captures images with the raw bayered data attached in a numpy array, which is demosaiced and then separated in 4 different bands and saved using opencv as a tiff image.

As expected, the raw, bayered, data is quite dark and has twice as many green pixels due to the raw format being rggb. I would like to know if there is someone who would like to collaborate improving the processing pipeline.

Below a test photograph I took sometime ago. I will follow up with some better pictures once I receive new lenses and NIR filters.

Regards,

Mayke

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Hi @warren, I like #image-sequencer. It would be very interesting to develop a variation of it customised for aerial imaging. It would have to include things like radiometric calibration, vignette correction, gradient (which it's already included), and maybe an image registration or mosaic builder. People could then buy the hardware, capture images and process them using #image-sequencer. Let me know what you think. Regards, Mayke

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Hi, I think that would be great. I'm trying to do an install of infragram in one recipe here, and if that works, I may do the same for image-sequencer, and set it up to run automatically on all images taken. If you're interested in trying to open a PR for this, I'm happy to help get it moving! It'd be installing image-sequencer instead of infragram:

https://github.com/publiclab/pi-builder/pull/37

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CM Module carrier board designed for the multispectral camera.

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Instant trigger in both cameras:

multispectral_cam_sync.jpg

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WOW!!! Was that generated onboard the Pi, or in post-processing? @xose @imvec take a look!

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Ah, but perhaps you're using the wrong filter setting in Image Sequencer -- it looks like potentially the NDVI values are inverse?

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Is this the correct order of the filters?

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Here is the picture for better appreciation:

clip_Raspicam.png

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Wow, very cool. Could you post a pic of the dual cameras too?

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Sure.

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Some new pictures taken with the Multispectral camera:

front_house1.jpg

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side_house1.jpg

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