anki_vector.vision

Utility methods for Vector’s vision

Vector’s can detect various types of objects through his camera feed.

The VisionComponent class defined in this module is made available as anki_vector.robot.Robot.vision and can be used to enable/disable vision processing on the robot.

Classes

VisionComponent(robot)

VisionComponent exposes controls for the robot’s internal image processing.
class anki_vector.vision.VisionComponent(robot)

VisionComponent exposes controls for the robot’s internal image processing.

The anki_vector.robot.Robot or anki_vector.robot.AsyncRobot instance owns this vision component.

Parameters

robot – A reference to the owner Robot object.

close()

Close all the running vision modes and wait for a response.

enable_custom_object_detection(detect_custom_objects=True)

Enable custom object detection on the robot’s camera.

If custom object detection is being turned off, the robot may still choose to keep it on if another subscriber (including one internal to the robot) requests this vision mode be active.

See objects.CustomObjectMarkers.

Parameters

detect_custom_objects (bool) – Specify whether we want the robot to detect custom objects.

import anki_vector
with anki_vector.Robot() as robot:
    robot.vision.enable_custom_object_detection()
enable_display_camera_feed_on_face(display_camera_feed_on_face=True)

Display the robot’s camera feed on its face along with any detections (if enabled)

Parameters

display_camera_feed_on_face (bool) – Specify whether we want to display the robot’s camera feed on its face.

import anki_vector

import time

with anki_vector.Robot() as robot:
    robot.vision.enable_display_camera_feed_on_face()
    time.sleep(10.0)
enable_face_detection(detect_faces=True, estimate_expression=False)

Enable face detection on the robot’s camera

Parameters

  • detect_faces (bool) – Specify whether we want the robot to detect faces.

  • detect_smile – Specify whether we want the robot to detect smiles in detected faces.

  • estimate_expression (bool) – Specify whether we want the robot to estimate what expression detected faces are showing.

  • detect_blink – Specify whether we want the robot to detect how much detected faces are blinking.

  • detect_gaze – Specify whether we want the robot to detect where detected faces are looking.