Control Camera Device From C#

Question

I am now facing one problem which to get the live image from Camera (eg. Sony, Canon) into winform and also control the camera capture button from a button in the form.

Answer 1

Emgu cv is a project that provides all the bindings for OpenCV. I've used it on both Windows and Linux platforms (Mono) with great success.

http://emgu.com/ http://emgu.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Capture_in_7_lines_of_code

Answer 2

This hardly depends on the capabilities of the camera and its driver. Your biggest chance might be the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) framework.

Take a look at this article or the MSDN reference.

Answer 3

This project supports even high-end PTZ camera. Code Project - Versatile WebCam C# library.

It uses Touchless.Vision and WebCamLib

Answer 4

You can also take a look on Intel OpenCV. It's C++, but you can use use PInvoke to use it from c#