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Hi guys!
I am doing a project which involves automatic image processing of eggs. The specific problem I am now facing is how to continually feed images into my algorithm. The process is similar to a factory setting -> Copy image of egg into a folder, MATLAB runs the algorithm on the image and spits out a result, and then another image comes, and the images keep on coming
I have an ideas on how to implement this:
1) Have MATLAB continually running and have it woken up whenever an image comes into the folder. Either this can be in form of an interrupt, or it can check the contents of the folder every minute
Can this be done, or does anyone have ideas on how I can do this ?
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nur izzati
on 7 Mar 2012
hi..i want to do the same thing also, how do you do that? may you share ideas with me?
email me at nadya_mon87@yahoo.com
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Andreas Goser
on 24 Mar 2011
I suggest to completely skip of acquiring the images with another software and copying them into a folder and instead acquire the images directly in MATLAB using the Image Acquisition Toolbox
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Kaustubha Govind
on 24 Mar 2011
If you are able to program an interrupt, you can use the "matlab -r filename" option to have MATLAB run a specific script by invoking it from a shell script. Note that this start a new MATLAB session each time, so your script should terminate MATLAB using "quit" when it is done processing.
However, if the frequency at which images arrive is high, it will be more efficient to have one MATLAB session running continuously.
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