{"id":9044,"date":"2017-12-29T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2018-09-14T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:05:29","slug":"looking-back-2017-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2017\/12\/29\/looking-back-2017-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back: 2017 in review"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAnd so 2017 comes to an end. And here again, to close out a year of exciting File Exchange Contributions: our annual review of our Picks of the year.\n<\/p>\n

\nYou can read the original blog posts for each of these picks by clicking on the names of the files and following the links to the “Pick of the Week” tag.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs always, your comments<\/a> are welcome. Happy New Year, everyone!
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\nThe Ideal Gas Law, Data, and Footballs<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDaniel Frey<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nExplore the phenomena behind deflategate and learn about data analysis\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nDeep Learning in 11 Lines of MATLAB Code<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nUse MATLAB\u00ae, a simple webcam, and a deep neural network to identify objects in your surroundings.\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nLego Mindstorms EV3 Bike Project<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMichele Basso<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nModel based control of a Lego Mindstorms EV3 bike\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSolving Missionaries and Cannibals Problem<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMikhail<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMissionaries and Cannibals Problem solved with Simulink Design Verifier (and simple visualization)\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nAnimated Interactive HTML<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBenjamin I<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nConvert a matlab mesh to a transforming 3D figure on the web\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSemaphore POSIX and\u200b Windows<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAndrew Smart<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nPatches Dillon’s work to allow native semaphore usage within Matlab on Windows and POSIX systems\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nPPAP<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nYoko Miyazaki<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nPPAP Animation by MATLAB\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nDeep Learning: Transfer Learning in 10 lines of MATLAB Code<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nUse transfer learning for training a deep neural network to classify 5 different types of food.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nDeep Learning in 11 Lines of MATLAB Code<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMathWorks Deep Learning Toolbox Team<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nUse MATLAB\u00ae, a simple webcam, and a deep neural network to identify objects in your surroundings.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n3DScope<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nGiampiero Campa<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMultitrack 3D Simulink Scope\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nHyperlink<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMichele Scalseggi<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis function displays a hyperlink pointing either to a web page or to some MATLAB code.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nMobile Devices Challenge<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nJiro Doke<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMathWorks announces the winners of the 2017 Mobile Devices Challenge.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nPhysical Units Toolbox<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nSky Sartorius<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nEnables operations using hundreds of supported physical units of measurement and physical constants.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCustomizable Heat Maps<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAmeya Deoras<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nVisualize data as a heatmap with many customizable options.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nGuide To Object<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nNeil Hopcroft<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nTool for converting GUIDE UIs to Object Oriented Matlab\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nparseTime<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nRobert<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nConverts number of seconds to a human readable time string.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nThe Speech Transmission Index (STI)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nJacob D<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn implementation of the Speech Transmission Index (STI) for MATLAB\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\neasyBrowser<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMichele Scalseggi<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBrowse easily through MATLAB files and folders\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\ncircleFinder<\/tt><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBrett Shoelson<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nInteractive app and function to find circles in an image.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSubplot Position Calculator<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nChristopher Hummersone<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nCalculate subplot positions by specifying figure margins and axis scaling.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\ncell2underlying<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMathWorks Parallel Computing Toolbox Team<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nSimplifies use of tall arrays with fileDatastore\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nDeep Learning Tutorial Series<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nJohanna Pingel<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDownload code and watch video series to learn and implement deep learning techniques\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nProcess Manager<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBrian Lau<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMatlab class for launching and managing asynchronous processes\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCatStruct<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nJos (10584)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nConcatenate\/merge structures (v4.1, feb 2015).\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSource Control Information Block<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nGavin Walker<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDisplay Simulink project source control information in the Simulink editor\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCNN for Old Japanese Character Classification<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAkira Agata<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nCreate Simple Deep Learning Network for Old Japanese Character Classification\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nFidget Spinner (Simscape Multibody)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nPavel Roslovets<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n3DOF gyro psysical model of fidger spinner\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSignature Tool<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMcSCert<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Signature Tool extracts the interface of a Simulink subsystem.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\u201cRead text from a PDF document\u201d<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDerek Wood<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nRead the text from a simple PDF document into MATLAB as a string\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nReal-Time Pacer for Simulink<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nGautam Vallabha<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nSimulink block for forcing a simulation to run in real (wall clock) time\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nimpressionism<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDavid Mills<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nimpressionism takes an RGB image and “paints” it as though it were an impressionist painting.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nOOP example<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nper isakson<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\ntracer4m traces calls to methods and functions.\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nStateflow sliding mode controller demo<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBogumila & Zbigniew Mrozek<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nController jumps between fast unstable trajectories. It has very fast response, short settling time\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nnancumprod<\/tt>\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/a>Brett Shoelson<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nCompute the cumulative sum of matrices, specifying the treatment of NaNs.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\ncsvreadtail<\/tt><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMike<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nReads the last N lines of a CSV file without needing to load and parse the entire file.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCursorbar<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMarjorie<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nCursorbar creates a cursor line attached to an axes or lines.\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nMembrane Logo Zoetrope<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nNed Gulley<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nA zoetrope-style animation of the MathWorks logo.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nMATLAB Basemap Data<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMathWorks Mapping Team<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nColor terrain basemap data for geographic visualization.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNew Deep Learning Blog<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nSteve Eddins<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nA new MathWorks blog on deep learning.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nMock Object<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nPaul Sexton<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nA mock object library for MATLAB.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nlabelpoints<\/tt><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAdam Danz<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAutomatically label points in your plot given x and y values & an array of labels.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nMex Multithreading<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nDirk-Jan Kroon<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nExample of (Windows) multi-threading in a MEX file\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSTOICAL<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nReinhold<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Toolbox for Efficient Parameter and Structure Variation of Simulation Models in Simulink\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nQR Code encode and decode<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nLior Shapira<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nFunctions to encode and decode a QR bar-code in images\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nGet Computer MAC Address<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nXiangrui Li<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nGet MAC address for different operating systems\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\ngetElevations<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nJaroslaw Tuszynski<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\ngetElevations function queries Google Maps API webservice for ground elevations\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nLine \u2013 Goto From Tool<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMsCSert<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Line to Goto\/From tool converts signal lines to Goto\/From connections, and vice versa.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nPottslab \u2013 Multilabel segmentation of vectorial data<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMartin<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nMultilabel image segmentation for vector-valued images based on the Potts model\n<\/td>\n

\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\u201cHistorical Stock Data Download (alternate Method)\u201d<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nCaptain Awesome<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nRetrieves historical stock data from Yahoo Finance by parsing html pages instead of .csv download.\n<\/td>\n

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\n__________________________________________________________________________\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nStar Wars API Reader<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nHeather Gorr<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nRead data from the Star Wars API.\n<\/td>\n

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