Third-Party Drivers, Libraries, and Samples#

OpenCV#

The pylon Supplementary Package for blaze includes some C++ samples that illustrate how to access and visualize data acquired with a blaze cameras using the OpenCV C++ library. Refer to the C++ Programming Samples section, which provides more details, a list of samples, and information about how to install the OpenCV library.

Point Cloud Library (PCL)#

The pylon Supplementary Package for blaze includes some C++ samples that illustrate how to access and visualize data acquired with a blaze camera using the PCL C++ library. Refer to the C++ Programming Samples section, which provides more details, a list of samples, and information about how to install the PCL library.

Robot Operating System (ROS) – Linux Only#

ROS 1#

To access Basler blaze cameras from ROS, the pylon Supplementary Package for blaze includes a ROS driver for blaze cameras.

You will find the ROS driver among the blaze programming samples in the /opt/pylon/share/pylon/Samples/blaze/ROS folder.

In that folder, there is a README.md file that explains how to build and how to use the ROS driver for Basler blaze cameras.

ROS 2#

You can download a ROS 2 driver for Basler blaze cameras from GitHub.

Aravis – Linux Only#

Aravis is an open-sourcelibrary for interfacing GigE Vision and USB3 Vision cameras.

The pylon Supplementary Package for blaze includes C++ samples illustrating how to use a Basler blaze camera with the Aravis library. Refer to the C++ Programming Samples section, which provides more details and a list of samples.

MVTec HALCON#

The pylon Supplementary Package for blaze contains sample HDevelop scripts for MVTec HALCON.

Before opening the scripts with HDevelop, copy the HALCON folder to a location you have write access to.