This is a how-to on viewing camera recordings created by ArmarX image recording plugins, similar to what is described in How to Record Multiple Image Streams Simultaneously.

To view recordings made using Azure Kinect cameras present on ArmarDE or ARMAR-6, VisionX needs to be compiled / installed using axii.

The folder structure created by Azure Kinect cameras looks something like this:

├── OpenNIPointCloudProvider_depth
│   ├── metadata.csv
│   ├── chunk_0
│   ├── chunk_1
│   └── ...
└── OpenNIPointCloudProvider_rgb
    ├── metadata.csv
    ├── chunk_0
    ├── chunk_1
    └── ...

The folders named chunk_xxx contain the actual images.

In ArmarX, the Application PlaybackImageProviderApp enables viewing of image sequences. Create a new scenario in the ScenarioManager. To this scenario, add three applications:

PlaybackImageProviderApp
RemoteGuiProviderApp
MemoryNameSystem

By clicking on the PlaybackImageProviderApp, we can edit its config. Modify the parameter ArmarX.PlaybackImageProvider.recording_files to point to the folder containing the images, or to the folder containing metadata.csv. Specifying multiple paths in a semicolon-separated list allows side-by-side viewing of multiple recordings.

Now that the configuration of the scenario is complete, we can add the widget that will actually allow us to view the images: Add Widget->VisionX->ImageMonitor.

In the ImageMonitor widget, we need to specify the image source. Click on the wrench icon in the lower left of the application window. In the popup, specify PlaybackImageProvider as the proxy.

In the settings, we can also handle depth images by specifying the correct channel and specifying a maximum distance for visualization. However, handling depth images can come at the cost of some performance.