opencv video encryption video-streaming webcam

It s there any way to acces the frames taken with opencv for encription?

I try to make an encrypted video conference, so the data will be sent UDP mode, I accessed the webcam with openCV in python, it is there any whay to acces the data from webcam as bits so that I can encript-transfer-decript and show the immage on the desired station? Or what other library(python/java/c/c++) can help me wth taking data from my webcam?

Solution

I'm using OpenCV 3.3 for Python(3.5) on Ubuntu 16.04.

For you question, to encrypt the frame taken from video and transform by TCP/UDP:

On Side A:

(1) use `cap.read` to take frame form `videoCapture` as `np.array`
(2) use `np.tobytes` to convert from `np.array` to `bytes`
(3) do encryption on bytes(can be switched with step 2).
(4) transfer `bytes` using TCP/UDP

On Side B:

(1) receive from A
(2) do decryption on the received bytes
(3) use `np.frombuffer` to convert from `bytes` to `np.array`, then `reshape`. you get the data.

A sample code snippet:

On Side A

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

assert cap.isOpened()

## (1) read
ret, frame = cap.read()
sz = frame.shape

## (2) numpy to bytes 
frame_bytes = frame.tobytes()
print(type(frame_bytes))
# <class 'bytes'>

## (3) encode 
# ...

## (4) transfer
# ...

cap.release()

On Side B

## (1) receive
## (2) decode 

## (3) frombuffer and reshape to the same size on Side A
frame_frombytes = np.frombuffer(frame_bytes, dtype=np.uint8).reshape(sz)
print(type(frame_frombytes))
## <class 'numpy.ndarray'>