What is orbbec camera driver

Orbbec camera is a light dirver using c++ for orbbec depth camera. The official driver is bind with ROS. If you don't want to install ROS and only want to do some simple test with orbbec camera you can use this light driver.

Code

Find the latest version on Github:

git clone https://github.com/sunforever1990/orbbec_camera_driver.git

Dependencies

• libuvc

  • Orbbec cameras use libuvc to get RGB streams. You can get it from libuvc

  git clone https://github.com/ktossell/libuvc
  

  cd libuvc
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  make && sudo make install
  

  • You may use other drivers for RGB such as v4l.

• OpenNI2

  • This is for DEPTH stream and IR stream. The code is already include in libs folder. So you don't need to install it.

• OpenCV

  • This is used for image processing and visualization. You may visit OpenCV

• PCL

  • This is used for point cloud processing. You may visit PCL

• Pangolin

  • This is used for visualization. You can install it from Pangoliln

• Eigen

  • This is required by g2o (see below). Download and install instructions can be found at: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org. Required at least 3.1.0.

Building

Orbbec camera driver us CMake to build.

cd orbbec_camera_driver
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make