Image Acquisition Toolbox 3.4

Introduction

Image Acquisition Toolbox™ lets you acquire images and video directly into MATLAB® and Simulink® from PC-compatible imaging hardware. You can detect hardware automatically, configure hardware properties, preview an acquisition, and acquire images and video. With support for multiple hardware vendors, you can use a range of imaging devices, from inexpensive Web cameras or industrial frame grabbers to high-end scientific cameras that meet low-light, high-speed, and other challenging requirements.

Together, MATLAB, Image Acquisition Toolbox, and Image Processing Toolbox™ provide a complete environment for developing customized imaging applications. You can acquire images and video, visualize data, develop processing algorithms and analysis techniques, and create graphical user interfaces.

You can use Image Acquisition Toolbox with Simulink and Video and Image Processing Blockset™ to simulate and model real-time embedded imaging systems.

Key Features

• Automatically detects image and video acquisition devices
• Manages device configurations
• Provides live video previewing
• Acquires static images and continuous video
• Enables in-the-loop image processing and analysis
• Provides graphical user interface for working with devices
• Supports devices for use with MATLAB and Simulink
• Supports multiple hardware vendors

An Image Acquisition Toolbox application that acquires and analyzes images of central synapses to monitor synaptic transmission over time. Graphical user interfaces (above, upper right and lower left) enable researchers to tune acquisition and processing parameters. Image courtesy of Polugruto, T.A., Tervo, D.G., and Svoboda, K., Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Cold Spring Harbor Labs. Click on image to see enlarged view.