The Bottlenose Stereo Viewer is a basic utility that helps with image acquisition. The viewer works with both Bottlenose Mono and Bottlenose Stereo. The utility can be used to perform

• Mono and Stereo image acquisition (discussed below)
• Lens focusing
• Parameter tuning
• Stereo calibration
• Visualizing dense depth maps

Installing the Utility

To install the Stereo Viewer onto your computer,

For Windows

1. Download the bottlenose_utilities.exe software package here.
2. Uninstall any previously installed version. For this, you can use the Add or remove programs utility from your Windows Settings.
3. Double-click on the file and follow through with the installation process.

Ubuntu Linux and Nvidia Jetpack

You will have to install the utility from the source. The source repository for the stereo_viewer utility is accessible from here. Follow the instructions provided in the documentation page to clone and build the tool.

Using the Stereo Viewer

The Stereo Viewer can be used for basic tasks such as saving images, streaming from a camera, and visualizing and saving disparity maps.

Connecting a Bottlenose Camera

1. Start your Stereo Viewer utility.
   1. In Microsoft Windows, the Stereo Viewer can be found in the Start Menu after installing Bottlenose Utilities.
   2. In Linux, you have to start Stereo Viewer from your build directory.
2. Click Connect to select a Bottlenose on the network. This assumes the camera is connected and accessible.

Once connected, information from the selected Bottlenose camera is displayed.

3. If needed, click the Device Control button to access and tune the camera settings such as exposure, gain, etc.