Image Acquisition Toolbox
Description
- Introduction and Key Features
- Graphical Interface for Image and Video Acquisition
- Image Acquisition in MATLAB
- Performing Image Acquisition in Simulink
- Triggering and Acquisition Customizations
- Extensible Hardware Support
Introduction
Image Acquisition Toolbox™ enables you to acquire images and video from cameras and frame grabbers directly into MATLAB® and Simulink®. You can detect hardware automatically and configure hardware properties. Advanced workflows let you trigger acquisition while processing in-the-loop, perform background acquisition, and synchronize sampling across several multimodal devices. With support for multiple hardware vendors and industry standards, you can use imaging devices ranging from inexpensive Web cameras to high-end scientific and industrial devices that meet low-light, high-speed, and other challenging requirements.
Together, MATLAB, Image Acquisition Toolbox, and Image Processing Toolbox™ (and, optionally, Computer Vision System Toolbox™) provide a complete environment for developing customized imaging solutions. You can acquire images and video, visualize data, develop processing algorithms and analysis techniques, and create GUIs. The image acquisition engine enables you to acquire frames as fast as your camera and PC can support for high speed imaging. In addition, you can use Image Acquisition Toolbox with Simulink and Computer Vision System Toolbox to model and simulate real-time embedded imaging systems.
Image Acquisition Toolbox simplifies the acquisition process by providing a consistent interface across operating systems, hardware devices, and vendors. The toolbox provides multiple ways to access hardware devices from MATLAB and Simulink: the Image Acquisition Tool, a programmatic interface in MATLAB, and a block for Simulink. Each workflow provides access to camera properties and controls while enabling you to solve different types of problems with the strengths of each environment.
Key Features
- Support for industry standards, including DCAM, Camera Link, and GigE Vision
- Support for common OS interfaces for webcams, including Direct Show, QuickTime, and video4linux2
- Support for a range of industrial and scientific hardware vendors
- Multiple acquisition modes and buffer management options
- Synchronization of multimodal acquisition devices with hardware triggering
- Interactive tool for rapid hardware configuration, image acquisition, and live video previewing
- Support for C code generation in Simulink
