5.4 Using the System

Once the system has been compiled and installed as detailed in Section 5.3 it can be used.

Stereocam takes a set of parameters on the command line to specify how it should run. The syntax for running stereocam is:

stereocam [ -quiet | -verbose | - help ]

[ -input <Input Module Name> <Input Module Parameters> ]

[ -output <Output Module Name> <Output Module Parameters> ]

[ -process <Process Module Name> <Process Module Parameters> ]

[ ... ]

All parameters start with either a single or double dash ('-' or '-'), and are followed by zero or more arguments. Arguments are simply space separated words. Parameters can be specified in any order.

The -quiet parameter stops the system from outputting any messages to standard output, similarly, -verbose forces the system to output all messages to standard output. The -help parameter makes the system output basic help details to standard output.

There should be at most one -input parameter. If there is none, the system defaults to a null input module, which never returns any images.

There should be at most one -output parameter. If there is none, the system defaults to using the OutputIlStereo class, as described in Section 5.5.3.3.

There may be zero or more -process parameters. These parameters specify the chain of processing to be performed, as detailed in Section 5.5.4. The processes will be executed in the order they are specified on the command line.

The parameters for the Input, Output and Processing modules depend upon the module selected, and will be detailed in Section 5.5.