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Configure your system

Configure your system

Adjust camera settings

 1 

Ensure you are in Live mode and that a 

Camera

 view (in Blade 

Capture

 view) is 

displayed.

 2 

In the 

System Resources

 pane (in Blade 

the 

Selection

 editor), select one camera.

 3 

Notice that the 

Properties

 for this camera 

are listed at the bottom of the pane. (In 
Blade, view the 

Attributes

 editor.)

 4 

Have someone wave the calibration wand 
in the capture volume and ensure that you 
can see markers moving in the view pane.

 5 

Note the 

Grayscale Mode

 property. The 

default setting is 

Auto

, which tells the 

cameras to send to the Vicon software all 
the centroid data for grayscale blobs it can 
circle fit. If any grayscale blobs cannot be 
circle fitted, the grayscale data is sent to 
the Vicon software so it can try to circle fit 
the blobs. 

 6 

Look at the 

Strobe Intensity

 setting. With 

a value of 1, the cameras send as much 
light as possible into the volume.

Zoom in to a marker by right-clicking and 
dragging the mouse. Notice how the pixels 
change as you lower the light (to view 
pictures from a grayscale blob, 

Grayscale 

Mode

 must be set to All).

 7 

Notice the 

Threshold 

property. It tells the 

camera how bright a pixel must be to be 
accepted by the camera. Zoom in to a 
marker and notice how the pixels change 
as you adjust the property.

 8 

Adjust the 

Strobe

 and 

Threshold

 settings 

so that you see only the 2D circular-
shaped markers in your volume. Adjust the 

Strobe Intensity

 setting only as low and 

the 

Threshold

 only as high as needed. 

Set camera focus and aperture

 1 

Place three markers in the middle and on 
the far side of the capture volume.

 2 

Leaving the focus on infinity 



, close the 

aperture to as high an f-stop value as 
possible, so that you can still see the 
markers at the furthest distance required.

     Tip

In general, it’s better to run with a low 

Threshold

 setting and more closed aperture, 

than a high 

Threshold

 and open aperture. (See 

Threshold

 in 

Adjust camera settings

 above.)

The illustration (right) shows the focus 
and aperture rings on a Vicon 18 mm lens.

Locking screw

Aperture

Focus

Содержание Vantage V16

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Страница 2: ...tion Systems Limited reserves the right to make changes to information in this document without notice Companies names and data used in examples are fictitious unless otherwise noted No part of this p...

Страница 3: ...h power strobes on board processing Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and a new design Available in high performance resolutions up to 16 megapixels at 120 fps full frame capture speeds PoE switch The sup...

Страница 4: ...cables Camera cables include a ferrite at the camera end only If you are using one or more Vicon Lock units or MX T Series cameras with a Giganet additional cables are supplied Vantage calibration de...

Страница 5: ...r to include height as well as width and depth in your volume calculations Install and connect the cameras 1 Installeachcameraonatripod onthewall or on a ceiling mounted rig You can order mounting bra...

Страница 6: ...PC open Windows Network Connections right click the NIC to which the system is to be connected and then click Properties If you are connecting more than one card right click the first NIC 3 In the Pr...

Страница 7: ...to dongles 3 If you are prompted to restart your PC do so as soon as possible License the Vicon application software Vicon application software uses Safenet licensing and a built in licensing utility...

Страница 8: ...ade the Selection editor make sure all of the cameras in your system are listed 4 Ensure that at the top left of the screen thesystemisshownasliveandconnected Position the cameras 1 In the System Reso...

Страница 9: ...volume Zoom in to a marker by right clicking and draggingthemouse Noticehowthepixels change as you lower the light to view pictures from a grayscale blob Grayscale Mode must be set to All 7 Notice th...

Страница 10: ...otate the focus ring note that the marker images get smaller and then begin to get larger again Good focus is when the marker is at its smallest size c Observe that with the aperture fully open the ma...

Страница 11: ...the system You calibrate the system to enable the cameras to capture subject movements throughout the volume You can also set the volume origin and orientation of axes in relation to the capture volu...

Страница 12: ...old is not too high a good default is 0 2 When I tap a calibrated camera to select it the camera indicates that it has been bumped To change the sensitivity of the camera to taps in the camera s Prope...

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