LabVIEW Vision Assistant doesn't recognize my ASUS Xtion Pro camera

[accy44]

Hello!

I'm trying to receive real-time image from my 3D ASUS Xtion Pro camera with Labview. I want to use the Vision Acqusition vi, but it doesn't seem to be able to connect to my camera.Under Acquisition Sources for Localhost I can only see the Simulated Acquisition option and not my camera. What driver should I download for Vision Assistant to recognize it?

[Bob_Schor]

LabVIEW has two "flavors" of Hardware Drivers -- IMAQ, meant for "Frame Grabber" hardware, typically made by National Instruments and usable with matched sensors, and IMAQdx, which support Cameras that adhere to the GigE specification for Ethernet-capable cameras or GenICam specification for USB 2.0 and 3.0 cameras.

I suspect that the particular ASUS dual-camera with IR sensors and other "bells and whistles" may have its own vendor-specific API -- I was unable to learn much from their Web site, but you might have more information from the documentation (or registered access to their website).

Bob Schor

[accy44]

I dont really know much of the documentation since I'm doing this task as a school project.

[Bob_Schor]

Do some "research".  Go to the Web.  Contact the manufacturer.  Ask your instructor (or whoever purchased this device)

Bob Schor

[ChristopheC]

I don't think you can use Vision Assistant and the NI IMAQdx driver to acquire images from this camera, as it does not seem to conform with the USB Vision standard.

Try this link instead:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Machine-Vision/connect-asus-xtion-to-labview-vision/td-p/3179247

[Bob_Schor]

Note that OpenNI seems to have nothing to do with National Instruments.  As I said earlier, this system does not seem to conform to the standards supported by the two National Instruments Vision Drivers.

Bob Schor