Using AprilTag python library on Windows 10?

Question

I'm in need of a fiducial marker for a rover project as its primary control is image processing for steering down a driveway and when it gets to the end i need it to go to a precise location.

I was going to use ArUco tags but my version of OpenCV for the OpenVino framework doesn't support it. Then i tried to use AprilTags but i couldn't get it to install on my Windows 10 machine and later discovered its not supported on that OS. While my robot uses RaspPi i absolutely need my desktop environment for development and debugging.

Anyone get AprilTag library compiled for Windows Python 3? If not does anyone know of an alternate tag library (not ArUco) that is similar? I don't need anything fancy here - just something printed on a 4" x 4" (ish) piece of paper that my image processing pipeline can easily pick out of the image and i can then navigate to it. I don't even need to encode data on it - just need something unique to lock into.

Much appreciated!

Answer 1

Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit can also be installed through PyPI repository instead of installing the binary package that had compiled OpenCV community version.

• Runtime package with the Inference Engine inside.
• Developer package that includes the runtime package as a dependency, Model Optimizer, Accuracy Checker and Post-Training Optimization Tool.

Next, you can get the ArUco library that included in the opencv-contrib-python package which you can install via:

pip install opencv-contrib-python