Basic Camera Application & Environment

[jakeisnt]

Motivation

For our application to work, we need to create a simple camera application with Kivy to interface with a device's camera, view images that can be sent to other programs or take pictures and save them to device storage. We'd also like to have some way of interfacing with the display of the camera to display markings on top of images with OpenCV.

Task

Utilizing the Kivy framework, write a simple application functional on either Android or iOS (it should be easily compatible on either) that's able to display the current output of the camera, take photos and save them.

Logistics

Here are some helpful links I've found that will likely cover a lot of the assignment for you.

• Camera API Documentation
• taking a selfie with Kivy
  -example camera app

The most difficult part of this will likely be interfacing with OpenCV and allowing the image feed to be modified in real time by OpenCV code. Whether this is possible I'm not sure, and it might not even require additional work. Here is some work done with OpenCV and Kivy; it would be ideal to integrate an OpenCV webcam into Kivy rather than using a Kivy webcam just like this. We can work out what would be better; it would likely be best to get the OpenCV camera working but we can likely display post-processed images back through Kivy as well.