Consistent and reliable imaging for scientific applications.
Scientific imaging applications often require minimal post-processing pipelines, precise capture timing, near-gapless sequential frames, and easily configurable settings like gain, resolution, bit-depth, and exposure length.
This project, which began as fork of the webcam/video-focused picamera2
library, aims to make it easy to configure and use cameras for scientific applications,
with a focus on performance, reliability, code quality, and maintainability.
SciCamera currently focuses on high-quality, timing-sensitive, minimally-processed
still images. For low-bandwidth, real-time image and video streaming, we recommend
the picamera2 library.
SciCamera supports
- Raspberry Pi OS (Bullseye or later), 64-bit.
- x86 Ubuntu
Other debian flavors are likely to be supported. We welcome pull requests to extend the testing toolchains to cover your platform.
SciCamera is a pure python package, but relies on the python c++ wrapper of libcamera.
SciCamera can be installed simply with:
pip install scicamera
Import and use of the above pacakge requires that libcamera to be built
with the python package enabled. On rasbian, this is accomplished by
installing the libcamera package from apt. In x86 it must be built
using something like the following:
git clone https://github.com/Exclosure/libcamera.git
cd libcamera
git checkout v0.0.4
meson setup build -D pycamera=enabled
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build installOpen an issue/PR to discuss your bug or feature. Once a course of action has been identified, open a PR, discuss the changes.
Feature creep is not of interest, but we would be happy to help you build your more complicated project on top of this.
If we like them, and the tests pass we will merge them.
CI requires code has been processed isort and black toolchains.
Doing this is pretty easy:
isort .
black .
Great work.
Should be added to github action later
- Add your pypi token
$ poetry config pypi-token.pypi my-token- Cut a new tag
$ git tag -a v0.1.0 -m "Version 0.1.0"
$ git push origin v0.1.0- Publish
$ poetry publish --build