Camera helper tool features

[vaparth]

Feature request

(UserVoice request: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-universal-windows-platform/category/193402-uwp-community-toolkit)

• UI Rotation
• Set system Media Transport Control to false (i.e. MediaPlayer.CommandManager.IsEnabled = false)
• Insert automatically FaceDetection to have ROI-based 3A (can be under knob)
• Add simple photo capture capabilities (using AdvancedPhotoCapture under the hood)
• Add video recording capabilities
• Support 360 camera (see github for Cam360): https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-Camera
  • Spherical projection when 360 camera stream is in use
  • Add support for gesture for panning when displaying a 360 stream

[hupo376787]

Good idea!

[nmetulev]

This request is coming from the feature team to improve the CameraHelper and CameraPreview control. It's open to the community

[Kyaa-dost]

@vaparth What's the status of this request?

CC: @hupo376787

[LPBourret]

@Kyaa-dost @hupo376787 work on this has not started and is in the backlog, is there a particular feature you'd need? Defining your requirement and set of features will help us prioritize this.
thx

[Kyaa-dost]

Looping in @michael-hawker here to define requirements and see if this is something we want in the toolkit.

[michael-hawker]

Thanks @Kyaa-dost I believe there have been some requests for the ImageCropper control as well which overlap a little bit. There's a lot of big items in this one issue too, so it may be worth breaking out or re-evaluating a bit in the future. There's probably some improvements we can help make for our CameraPreview helpers and such (which I don't think existed when this was filed too), but not sure if we want to tackle everything here, especially stuff like ML and face-recognition, that's probably better suited as an Azure sample or library outside the Toolkit's domain.

Let's leave it open for a bit longer and re-evaluate after 7.0.

[LPBourret]

Hi, just want to clarify: Face detection (not recognition) is an OS API, no need to rely on a cloud service or deployable container, see: FaceDetectionEffect, FaceDetector I think this is relatively easy to integrate into the CameraHelper and CameraPreview control.

[michael-hawker]

Awesome @LPBourret thanks for the link! It's hard to keep up with what's available everywhere these days. I forget half of what's in the Toolkit already sometimes too... 😋