Taking images from IP Camera on MATLAB Online

Hi,

I want to use MATLAB online to aquire images from an IP Camera. However, MATLAB online doesn't seem to support IP cameras at the moment. Are there any alternative methods I can use to get images from the camera ?

Answer 1

[Jacob Mathew]

Hey Saitarun,

You could try to use the webread method to read data from URL along with any necessary web options parameter. This can be stored in a variable and then using methods like imshow, you can view the image. The following code demonstrates this and works in MATLAB Online:

options = weboptions(); % If needed, you can set any username and password or any other options
img = webread('https://picsum.photos/200', options); % Third party lorem ipsum image
imshow(img);

You can refer to the following documentation to learn more:

• webread - https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024b/matlab/ref/webread.html
• weboptions - https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024b/matlab/ref/weboptions.html
• imshow - https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024b/matlab/ref/imshow.html