NAOqi Vision¶

Video and picture management¶

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ALPhotoCapture	Take pictures and save them on disk.
ALVideoDevice	Manage video inputs.
ALVideoRecorder	Record video.

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ALBacklightingDetection	Check if the image of the camera is backlit.
ALBarcodeReader	Detect and read a barcode in an image.
ALColorBlobDetection	Detect blobs (circular or not) of a given color.
ALDarknessDetection	Check if the environment is dark.
ALLandMarkDetection	Detect specific visual landmarks.
ALMovementDetection	Detect some movement and tell where it comes from.
ALRedBallDetection	Detect red and circular objects.

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ALVisionRecognition	Make the robot learn and recognize visual patterns: objects, pictures...
ALVisualSpaceHistory	Build a timestamped map of the head positions.

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ALCloseObjectDetection	Detect objects that are to close to be directly detected by the 3D sensor
ALSegmentation3D	Segmentate the depth images returned by the 3D sensor.

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ALLocalization	give to the robot the ability to come back to a learned home.
ALVisualCompass	Use an image as a compass.