General Series Features

This section provides rough guidance on how to select a suitable camera model given your application constraints.

Most of our camera models can be fitted with different optics and focus distances to form a wide range of different camera variants. You can use our camera selector tool to choose the model matching your application requirements. The composition of the camera model names is defined by our naming scheme.

Housing

When space is limited and a compact device is needed B-series and N-series devices should be considered first. When space is not critical C-, X- and XR-series devices will in general deliver higher quality data with more robustness against ambient light.

Projection Color

When acquiring images of the human face it might be beneficial to use infrared projection, which is available in N-series models only. Also synchronous acquisition of color images in moving scenes only results in high quality data when using infrared projection.

Resolution

B/C/X/XR-series cameras are available with higher resolution sensor models.

C/X/XR-series will in general achieve high depth resolutions because of the larger available baselines.

Texture Images

B-series use color sensors and can be used to directly take texture images from the same perspective as the depth image.

C-series contain a color sensor which can be used to take texture images.

Performance

XR-series cameras perform on-board processing. This is beneficial when using multiple cameras, or using with relatively low performance host systems because each camera brings its own processing power. If your host system has sufficient performance (>8 CPU cores, CUDA-enabled GPU, etc.) you might be able to achieve slightly higher performance when connecting single X-series devices to this system.