This provides a simple interface, via OpenCV, for configuring and utilizing a camera device, using Python
We will need to install OpenCV with the Python bindings so that we can access laptop cameras via our Python code. Follow the instructions for Windows and Mac.
conda install -c conda-forge opencvClone Camera, navigate to the resulting directory, and run
pip install -e .Please see the camera tutorial notebookin this repo for details of how to configure your camera.
%matplotlib notebook
from camera import take_picture
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
img_array = take_picture() # returns shape-(H, W, C) array
fig,ax = plt.subplots()
ax.imshow(img_array)