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D435 problems with small objects

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  • MartyG

    Are you able to get better results please if you turn off auto-exposure and set the exposure manually?  I understand that this may not be ideal if you want to use an AE Region of Interest though.

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  • Tommy Stromhaug

    Hi and thank you for answering.

    No, i am not getting a better result with tweaking the manual exposure. Only thing that work is to adjust the max-dist, but then i get a lot of noise. I wonder if this is because of the height(30 mm) and the small area at the top ? The top is a sphere with 10 mm diameter with the center 25 mm from the floor.

    Another test shows that results got better with the camera 70 cm from the floor.

    Tommy 

     

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  • MartyG

    Your problem shares characteristics with another recent case where a RealSense user was placing boxes of different thicknesses on a flat surface (vertically against a wall in tests, though the final project will be horizontally on a table).  They too experienced the problem of locking onto the thinnest of the boxes and separating it from the background, and problems with extending the maximum range.

    https://support.intelrealsense.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360033574174-415-depth-sense-granularity 

    That case is still open and unresolved so far.   The most recent comment I made on it was to pass on some advice I gave a different user for noise reduction.

    https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/4703#issuecomment-523823310 

    You may also experience additional noise on the image if the room is using a fluorescent ceiling light (like the strip lights in offices) rather than a bulb-based light, as they can flicker at frequencies that are hard to see with the human eye.   If the light is of the fluorescent type, operating the camera FPS at a speed closer to the frequency of the particular light can help.   For some people it is 30 FPS and others it is 60 FPS.

     

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  • Tommy Stromhaug

    Ok, thank you for answering. I have some ideas how to get it to work anyway.

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  • MartyG

    Okay, thank you.   If you do find a successful method, please do share it here if you are able to so that others can benefit from the knowledge.   Good luck!

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