Golang : Activate web camera and broadcast out base64 encoded images
For this tutorial, we will learn how to activate web camera with Golang + OpenCV and stream out base64 encoded images via HTTP server. This tutorial is derived from the lesson that I use to teach my son on the subject of computer vision and Golang. It is based on the Go-OpenCV tutorial on activating web camera (https://github.com/lazywei/go-opencv/blob/master/samples/webcam.go).
The program will activate the web camera when you point your web browser to localhost:8080
and begin streaming out base64 encoded images. You will have to scroll down the see the new images. LOL! Good enough to get a 3 years old kid excited about computer vision.
Before you start.
go get github.com/lazywei/go-opencv
Here you go!
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/base64"
"fmt"
"github.com/lazywei/go-opencv/opencv"
"image/png"
"net/http"
)
func broadcast(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
webCamera := opencv.NewCameraCapture(0)
if webCamera == nil {
panic("Unable to open camera")
}
defer webCamera.Release()
for {
if webCamera.GrabFrame() {
imgFrame := webCamera.RetrieveFrame(1)
if imgFrame != nil {
//fmt.Println(imgFrame.ImageSize())
//fmt.Println(imgFrame.ToImage())
// convert IplImage(Intel Image Processing Library)
// to image.Image
goImgFrame := imgFrame.ToImage()
// and then convert to []byte
// with the help of png.Encode() function
frameBuffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
//frameBuffer := make([]byte, imgFrame.ImageSize())
err := png.Encode(frameBuffer, goImgFrame)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// convert the buffer bytes to base64 string - use buf.Bytes() for new image
imgBase64Str := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(frameBuffer.Bytes())
// Embed into an html without PNG file
img2html := "<html><body><img src=\"data:image/png;base64," + imgBase64Str + "\" /></body></html>"
w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf(img2html)))
// TODO :
// encode frames to stream via WebRTC
fmt.Println("Streaming....")
}
}
}
}
func main() {
fmt.Println("Broadcasting...")
mux := http.NewServeMux()
mux.HandleFunc("/", broadcast)
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", mux)
}
streaming out base64 encoded images to browser
NOTES:
In case you get these error messages :
No package 'opencv' found
Package opencv was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `opencv.pc'
to the PKGCONFIGPATH environment variable
Fix this problem by installing openCV.
On MacOSX :
>brew install homebrew/science/opencv
References:
https://github.com/lazywei/go-opencv/blob/master/opencv/goimage.go
https://www.socketloop.com/references/golang-net-http-servecontent-function-example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35667501/golang-seeking-through-a-video-serving-as-bytes
See also : Golang : Save webcamera frames to video file
By Adam Ng
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