Getting strange artifacting from MIPI camera... possible source?

I have an Orin Jetson Nano running Jetpack 6.0. I have hooked up a MIPI camera to it (Arducam B0221), and can get images, but when the frame rate exceeds 5 frames per second I start to get strange data glitches. The glitches are most apparent when there is a bright light source in the image. I have also tried another model of camera, and it failed to work correctly, also with image glitching, but far worse — completely unusable (but with a custom driver that I don’t really trust).

Have you seen this behavior before? I can think of a few possibilities: 1) a defective camera (but seems unlikely since two different camera models have problems), 2) a damaged MIPI communications chip on the Jeston or some other Jetson hardware problem, 3) a driver or software problem (but seems unlikely because why would the problem go away just by throttling the framerate?) 4) a settings problem of some sort.

Thanks.

hello chiemwhuama,

it’s a known issue with JP-6.0 GA/l4t-r36.3.0, which images captured through VI-mode results in abnormal lines.
please refer to Topic 299834 for the fixes for raw image corruption (line artifacts) through VI-mode
or… you may moving to the latest Jetpack-6 public release version (JP-6.2/r36.4.3) to include the fixes.

Thank you that’s VERY helpful!