Are 2 simultaneous webcam windows possible with openCV? - c

Question

I am applying common image transforms to my live webcam capture. I want to display the original webcam in one window and the image with the transforms applied to in another window. However, I am getting same image (filtered) on both windows, I am wondering if I am limited by the OpenCV API or if I am missing something? My code snippet looks like -
/* allocate resources */
cvNamedWindow("Original", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
cvNamedWindow("Filtered", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
CvCapture* capture = cvCaptureFromCAM(0);
do {
IplImage* img = cvQueryFrame(capture);
cvShowImage("Original", img);
Filters* filters = new Filters(img);
IplImage* dst = filters->doSobel();
cvShowImage("Filtered", dst);
cvWaitKey(10);
} while (1);
/* deallocate resources */
cvDestroyWindow("Original");
cvDestroyWindow("Filtered");
cvReleaseCapture(&capture);

Answer 1

Its possible! Try copying img to another IplImage before sending it to processing and see if that works first.
Yes, I know what you're going to say. But just try that first and see if it does what you want. The code below is just to illustrate what you should do, I don't know if it will work:
/* allocate resources */
cvNamedWindow("Original", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
cvNamedWindow("Filtered", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
CvCapture* capture = cvCaptureFromCAM(0);
do {
IplImage* img = cvQueryFrame(capture);
cvShowImage("Original", img);
IplImage* img_cpy = cvCreateImage(cvGetSize(img), 8, 3);
img_cpy = cvCloneImage(img);
Filters* filters = new Filters(img_cpy);
IplImage* dst = filters->doSobel();
cvShowImage("Filtered", dst);
/* Be aware that if you release img_cpy here it might not display
* the data on the window. On the other hand, not doing it now will
* cause a memory leak.
*/
//cvReleaseImage( &img_cpy );
cvWaitKey(10);
} while (1);
/* deallocate resources */
cvDestroyWindow("Original");
cvDestroyWindow("Filtered");
cvReleaseCapture(&capture);