I am trying to get the temperature of individual pixels from JPEG images generated by the Mobotix M15 Thermal camera. I was curious if anyone knew of any documentation on how the images are generated or had another way of getting the raw data from the thermal camera. I am using the HTTP API.
My understanding is that for every pixel, the data from the Thermal camera is possibly scaled to beween 0 and 1023, then cliped to the specified ‘Thermal Range’ setting. Then the data is turned into the image by scaling/converting to a greyscale/what ever image type you specify.
My ‘Thermal Range’ setting is not set to adjust atomattcly - I set it to fixed values - so I can probably extract the cliped 0 - 1023 value from any image, but I don’t know how to turn that number into tempatue, as it did not apart to match any temperature units based on my testing. I know I could just calibraite it with a ice cube and anything hot that has a know temperature, but I would rather not do that.
I could be wrong about this also, but it seems like the raw thermal data is not something I can access directly from the M15 camera, but this can be done using the SDK on some Mobotix cameras?
Thanks,
Patrick