Added continous hand tracking

source/Helpers/ChArUco.py

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ import cv2
 import numpy as np
 
 # ---- Board parameters (CHANGE THESE ONLY IF YOU REPRINT) ----
-squares_x = 6        # number of chessboard squares in X
-squares_y = 9        # number of chessboard squares in Y
-square_length = 25  # mm
-marker_length = 18  # mm (must be < square_length)
+squares_x = 4        # number of chessboard squares in X
+squares_y = 5        # number of chessboard squares in Y
+square_length = 50  # mm
+marker_length = 36  # mm (must be < square_length)
 dictionary_id = cv2.aruco.DICT_4X4_50
 dpi = 300            # print DPI
 # ------------------------------------------------------------

source/Tbd/TrackingController.py

@@ -32,18 +32,25 @@ class TrackingController(QObject):
 
         # MediaPipe's legacy solutions.hands API no longer exists on the
         # installed mediapipe version, so hand detection runs on the newer
-        # Tasks API instead (IMAGE mode: each camera frame is detected
-        # independently, since frames from different cameras aren't a single
-        # monotonic video stream that VIDEO mode requires).
+        # Tasks API instead. Each camera gets its own HandLandmarker running
+        # in VIDEO mode, fed only that camera's own frames with a monotonically
+        # increasing per-camera timestamp - this lets MediaPipe track hands
+        # frame-to-frame per view (much less jitter than re-detecting blind
+        # every frame), which wouldn't be valid if frames from different
+        # camera viewpoints were interleaved through a single VIDEO-mode
+        # detector.
+        self._frame_counter = defaultdict(int)
+        self.detectors = {}
+        for camera in self.cameraList:
             options = HandLandmarkerOptions(
                 base_options=BaseOptions(model_asset_path=MODEL_PATH),
-            running_mode=RunningMode.IMAGE,
-            num_hands=4,
+                running_mode=RunningMode.VIDEO,
+                num_hands=12,
                 min_hand_detection_confidence=0.5,
                 min_hand_presence_confidence=0.5,
                 min_tracking_confidence=0.5,
             )
-        self.detector = HandLandmarker.create_from_options(options)
+            self.detectors[camera.index] = HandLandmarker.create_from_options(options)
 
     def start(self):
         # Guard: need projections
@@ -72,6 +79,9 @@ class TrackingController(QObject):
         for camera in self.cameraList:
             camera.close()
 
+        for detector in self.detectors.values():
+            detector.close()
+
         if self.logger: self.logger.log("[Tracking] Stopped")
 
     def _tick(self):
@@ -102,6 +112,10 @@ class TrackingController(QObject):
             if camera.capture is None:
                 continue
 
+            detector = self.detectors.get(camera.index)
+            if detector is None:
+                continue
+
             ok, frameBGR = camera.capture.read()
             if not ok or frameBGR is None:
                 continue
@@ -110,7 +124,10 @@ class TrackingController(QObject):
             frameRGB = cv2.cvtColor(frameBGR, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
 
             mp_image = mp.Image(image_format=mp.ImageFormat.SRGB, data=frameRGB)
-            result = self.detector.detect(mp_image)
+
+            self._frame_counter[camera.index] += 1
+            timestamp_ms = self._frame_counter[camera.index] * self.tick_ms
+            result = detector.detect_for_video(mp_image, timestamp_ms)
 
             if not result.hand_landmarks:
                 continue

source/UI/SetupPageWidget.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import os
 from Tbd.helper import CameraObject
 from UI.UILogger import UILogger
 
-from PySide6.QtCore import Qt, QTimer
+from PySide6.QtCore import Qt, QTimer, QThread, Signal
 from PySide6.QtGui import QImage, QPixmap
 from PySide6.QtWidgets import QLineEdit
 from PySide6.QtGui import QIntValidator
@@ -12,6 +12,35 @@ from PySide6.QtWidgets import QWidget, QLabel, QVBoxLayout, QPushButton, QHBoxLa
 from typing import List
 
 
+class LoadCamerasWorker(QThread):
+    """
+    Opens/verifies/closes each camera off the UI thread - camera.open() does
+    MSMF format negotiation with retries+sleeps, which used to block the Qt
+    event loop (window shows as "Not Responding") for the whole duration.
+    """
+    cameraOpened = Signal(object)
+    logMessage = Signal(str)
+
+    def __init__(self, indexToAdd: List[int]):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.indexToAdd = indexToAdd
+
+    def run(self):
+        for index in self.indexToAdd:
+            camera = CameraObject(capture=None, index=index)
+
+            if not camera.open():
+                self.logMessage.emit(f"cam{index}: failed to open, skipping.")
+                continue
+
+            ret, frame = camera.capture.read()
+            if ret:
+                self.logMessage.emit(f"cam{index}: verified, frame shape={frame.shape}")
+            else:
+                self.logMessage.emit(f"cam{index}: opened but failed to read a frame.")
+
+            camera.close()
+            self.cameraOpened.emit(camera)
 
 
 class SetupPage(QWidget):
@@ -91,32 +120,23 @@ class SetupPage(QWidget):
             self.logger.log("Path not found")
 
         indexToAdd = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
-
+        #indexToAdd = [0, 3]
         # Cameras are verified one at a time and left closed afterwards - this
         # hardware can't sustain many concurrent capture graphs (confirmed via
         # both CAP_DSHOW and a raw DirectShow graph), so callers open a camera
         # right before they need it (CameraSetupWidget.Start, calibration capture)
         # and close it right after, instead of keeping all 6 open simultaneously.
-        for index in indexToAdd:
-            camera = CameraObject(capture=None, index=index)
-
-            if not camera.open():
-                self.logger.log(f"cam{index}: failed to open, skipping.")
-                continue
-
-            ret, frame = camera.capture.read()
-            if ret:
-                self.logger.log(f"cam{index}: verified, frame shape={frame.shape}")
-            else:
-                self.logger.log(f"cam{index}: opened but failed to read a frame.")
-
-            camera.close()
+        self.loadBTN.setEnabled(False)
+        self._loadWorker = LoadCamerasWorker(indexToAdd)
+        self._loadWorker.logMessage.connect(self.logger.log)
+        self._loadWorker.cameraOpened.connect(self._onCameraLoaded)
+        self._loadWorker.finished.connect(lambda: self.loadBTN.setEnabled(True))
+        self._loadWorker.start()
 
+    def _onCameraLoaded(self, camera: CameraObject):
         self.cameraList.append(camera)
         self._cameraList_changed()
 
-        return
-
         
         
     def save_setup(self):