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Basics of Reading Fiduciary Markers

Explore the step-by-step process of reading fiduciary markers using Python and OpenCV. Learn how to perform camera calibration, capture and preprocess images, detect markers, estimate pose, post-process data, and visualize results for applications including augmented reality.

Reading and detecting fiduciary markers like ArUco markers and AprilTags involves several steps. Here is an overview of the process:

  1. Camera calibration (optional but recommended)
  2. Capture images or video frames
  3. Preprocessing
  4. Marker detection
  5. Pose estimation (optional)
  6. Post-processing (optional)
  7. Visualization (required for AR, otherwise optional)

The marker detection process

Here, we’ll give a short discussion of ...