class AprilTag – AprilTag object

The apriltag object is returned by Image.find_apriltags(). It is an attrtuple with 24 fields.

class image.apriltag

Please call Image.find_apriltags() to create this object. It has no public constructor.

x() int

Returns the apriltag’s bounding box x coordinate (int).

You may also get this value doing [0] on the object.

y() int

Returns the apriltag’s bounding box y coordinate (int).

You may also get this value doing [1] on the object.

w() int

Returns the apriltag’s bounding box w coordinate (int).

You may also get this value doing [2] on the object.

h() int

Returns the apriltag’s bounding box h coordinate (int).

You may also get this value doing [3] on the object.

cx() int

Returns the centroid x position of the apriltag (int).

You may also get this value doing [4] on the object.

cy() int

Returns the centroid y position of the apriltag (int).

You may also get this value doing [5] on the object.

id() int

Returns the numeric id of the apriltag. The id range depends on the family.

You may also get this value doing [6] on the object.

family() int

Returns the numeric family of the apriltag — one of:

You may also get this value doing [7] on the object.

name() str

Returns the family name of the apriltag as a qstr (str), e.g. "TAG36H11".

You may also get this value doing [8] on the object.

cxf() float

Returns the centroid x position of the apriltag (float).

You may also get this value doing [9] on the object.

cyf() float

Returns the centroid y position of the apriltag (float).

You may also get this value doing [10] on the object.

rotation() float

Returns the rotation of the apriltag in radians (float).

You may also get this value doing [11] on the object.

decision_margin() float

Returns the quality of the apriltag match (0.0 - 1.0) where 1.0 is the best.

You may also get this value doing [12] on the object.

hamming() int

Returns the number of accepted bit errors for this tag.

  • TAG16H5 -> 0 bit errors will be accepted

  • TAG25H9 -> up to 3 bit errors may be accepted

  • TAG36H10 -> up to 3 bit errors may be accepted

  • TAG36H11 -> up to 4 bit errors may be accepted

You may also get this value doing [13] on the object.

goodness() float

Returns the quality of the apriltag image (0.0 - 1.0) where 1.0 is the best. Currently always 0.0.

You may also get this value doing [14] on the object.

x_translation() float

Returns the translation in unknown units from the camera in the X direction (left-to-right).

You may also get this value doing [15] on the object.

y_translation() float

Returns the translation in unknown units from the camera in the Y direction (up-to-down).

You may also get this value doing [16] on the object.

z_translation() float

Returns the translation in unknown units from the camera in the Z direction (front-to-back).

You may also get this value doing [17] on the object.

x_rotation() float

Returns the rotation in radians of the apriltag in the X plane (float).

You may also get this value doing [18] on the object.

y_rotation() float

Returns the rotation in radians of the apriltag in the Y plane (float).

You may also get this value doing [19] on the object.

z_rotation() float

Returns the rotation in radians of the apriltag in the Z plane (float). This is a renamed version of apriltag.rotation().

You may also get this value doing [20] on the object.

corners() Tuple[Tuple[int, int], Tuple[int, int], Tuple[int, int], Tuple[int, int]]

Returns a tuple of 4 (x, y) tuples of the 4 corners of the object. Corners are returned in sorted clock-wise order starting from the top left.

You may also get this value doing [21] on the object.

area() int

Returns the area (w * h) of the apriltag’s bounding box (int).

You may also get this value doing [22] on the object.

rect() Tuple[int, int, int, int]

Returns a rectangle tuple (x, y, w, h) of the apriltag’s bounding box for use with other image methods like Image.draw_rectangle().

You may also get this value doing [23] on the object.