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January 18th, 2008

Cool Feature: Video processing demos

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This three minute video shows you how to view product demos in the Video and Image Processing blockset. Motion detection and tracking is covered in the first demo and photo mosaicking from video is covered in the second.

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5 Responses to “Cool Feature: Video processing demos”

  1. Szymon Gackowski replied on :

    ok, that is really cool. But is there any possibility to do this in real time using data aquisition? how to aquire data from usb web cam?
    best regards!
    Simon

  2. Bruce Tannenbaum replied on :

    Hi Szymon,

    With the Image Acquisition Toolbox, you can acquire images or video into Simulink and/or MATLAB. For Simulink, you would use the “From Video Device” block. This supports USB web cameras, as well as a broad range of frame grabbers and scientific digital cameras. For more information on the supported hardware, look here: http://www.mathworks.com/products/imaq/supportedio.html

    - Bruce

  3. Szymon Gackowski replied on :

    Thank you Bruce!
    That was very helpful!

  4. elya replied on :

    hi,i’m using MATLAB 7.0.

    i’m a beginner. I want to read/call video (.avi) file in MATLAB but i couldn’t find any function. how to call the video (.avi) in matlab? how to extract the video frame by frame?

    thanks

  5. Scott Hirsch replied on :

    Elya -

    In v7.0, try aviread. This has straightforward syntax for reading a single frame - you could just embed in a for loop if that’s appropriate.

    Readers with newer versions should check out mmreader - introduced on Windows in R2007b, Mac in R2008a.

    - scott

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