Version 2.8 (R2009b) Video and Image Processing Blockset :: Video and Image Processing Blockset Release Notes (Video and Image Processing Blockset™)

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Version 2.8 (R2009b) Video and Image Processing Blockset

This table summarizes what's new in Version 2.8 (R2009b):

New Features and Changes	Version Compatibility Considerations	Fixed Bugs and Known Problems	Related Documentation at Web Site
Yes Details below	No	Bug Reports Includes fixes	Printable Release Notes: PDF Current product documentation

New Template Matching Block with Support for Several Match Metrics and Region of Interest Processing

Template matching is a common operation used to locate a template in an image. The new Template Matching block improves upon the existing SAD (Sum of Absolute Differences) block by incorporating additional match metrics. This new block supports Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD), Sum of Squared Differences (SSD), and Maximum Absolute Difference algorithms. It also supports Region of Interest processing (ROI). This block replaces the SAD block, which will be obsolete in a future release.

Variable Size Data Support

Several Video and Image Processing Blockset™ blocks now support changes in signal size during simulation. The following blocks support variable size data as of this release:

Expanded From Multimedia File Block to Support Additional Video Codecs

This release introduces an expanded From Multimedia File block to work with a wider variety of codecs. The block now has more capability to work with the codecs that output YCbCr color data only. These codecs exist in MPEG-2 encoded files, and several other video file types.