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Is there a way to compress an Image?

asked 2011-03-22 07:34:25 -0600

Murph gravatar image

updated 2011-04-03 07:34:02 -0600

Eric Perko gravatar image

I've got a kinect mounted on my robot, and i can view it's camera feed remotely by adding a "Image" to my rviz setup. however, it's really laggy. is there a way to compress the Image stream into something smaller before sending it over the wireless?

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answered 2011-04-01 11:41:40 -0600

Patrick Mihelich gravatar image

The OpenNI driver already uses image_transport to publish images, so you actually don't need to use republish. Assuming you have the image_transport_plugins stack installed, rostopic list should show compressed and theora versions of each image topic.

In rviz, in your Image parameters just click Transport Hints and select compressed or theora from the drop-down.

Using republish does make sense if you have multiple (N) subscriber nodes on the other side. If they all subscribe to the compressed topic, then you decompress each image N times. Better to do the decompression once in a republish node, and pipe the raw output to the N subscribers.

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answered 2011-03-22 08:16:33 -0600

KoenBuys gravatar image

Have a look at the image_transport package:

republish in_transport in:=<in_base_topic> [out_transport] out:=<out_base_topic>
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