Shiny Ducks
From Packaged Sensors to 3D Color Images in just Ten Minutes
In June this year, Stemmer Imaging and Zivid signed a distribution agreement for the Zivid One+ 3D color camera. We took a moment to speak to Tim Huylebrouck, Product Manager at Stemmer Imaging.
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Bild: Stemmer Imaging AGWhat do you see as the biggest challenges for people starting to use 3D vision today? Tim Huylebrouck: I'd say that inexperienced users can be overwhelmed by the options available. Simply selecting which technology is best-suited for a specific application can be a bit of a minefield.
Huylebrouck: At Stemmer Imaging we see ourselves as technology providers rather than distributors, since box-shifting is only a small part of our daily business. We always want to make sure that our customers have a significant technology advantage over their competitors and we found that the Zivid One+ filled a gap in our portfolio. Thanks to its point cloud quality, field of view flexibility and data acquisition speed, we're now able to overcome challenges that previously couldn't be solved. From a pure technology perspective it was also very clear to us that we wanted to work with Zivid. We hear that you took a Zivid 3D camera home with you. How did that go? Huylebrouck: It's true. The engineer in me came out, I grabbed a Zivid One+ from the demo pool and took it home to play with. To familiarise myself with a new product I'd normally pick it out of the warehouse and inspect it at my desk or in our tech support department. This time though it just felt different. To the amusement of my surprised, yet supportive team manager, I think I wanted to prove to myself that I was still an engineer at heart, and this exciting new Zivid One+ was going to help me do it. And it did, and I'm still an engineer after all! With Zivid's online knowledge base it was very easy to get my laptop going with the latest Zivid software. I updated my video card driver, installed Zivid Studio, connected the One+ camera to the USB port and I was away. The software automatically detected the camera and the default values worked well at grabbing me my first 3D color image. I could even see which tomatoes were ripe on my balcony. After a bit more work with the sensor, I got a good feel for which buttons to use to achieve the best results. All in all, it only took me about ten minutes to get from a packaged sensor to 3D color images on my laptop. Another 10 to 20 minutes later and I knew how to use the HDR functionality. It wasn't even a problem distinguishing between the almost black parts and shiny white parts on a rubber duck.
Huylebrouck: At Stemmer Imaging we see ourselves as technology providers rather than distributors, since box-shifting is only a small part of our daily business. We always want to make sure that our customers have a significant technology advantage over their competitors and we found that the Zivid One+ filled a gap in our portfolio. Thanks to its point cloud quality, field of view flexibility and data acquisition speed, we're now able to overcome challenges that previously couldn't be solved. From a pure technology perspective it was also very clear to us that we wanted to work with Zivid. We hear that you took a Zivid 3D camera home with you. How did that go? Huylebrouck: It's true. The engineer in me came out, I grabbed a Zivid One+ from the demo pool and took it home to play with. To familiarise myself with a new product I'd normally pick it out of the warehouse and inspect it at my desk or in our tech support department. This time though it just felt different. To the amusement of my surprised, yet supportive team manager, I think I wanted to prove to myself that I was still an engineer at heart, and this exciting new Zivid One+ was going to help me do it. And it did, and I'm still an engineer after all! With Zivid's online knowledge base it was very easy to get my laptop going with the latest Zivid software. I updated my video card driver, installed Zivid Studio, connected the One+ camera to the USB port and I was away. The software automatically detected the camera and the default values worked well at grabbing me my first 3D color image. I could even see which tomatoes were ripe on my balcony. After a bit more work with the sensor, I got a good feel for which buttons to use to achieve the best results. All in all, it only took me about ten minutes to get from a packaged sensor to 3D color images on my laptop. Another 10 to 20 minutes later and I knew how to use the HDR functionality. It wasn't even a problem distinguishing between the almost black parts and shiny white parts on a rubber duck.
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