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| The MathWorks Introduces Image Acquisition Toolbox 2  The MathWorks has announced the release of Image Acquisition Toolbox 2, which now supports QImaging and Hamamatsu cameras used in fields such as fluorescence microscopy and particle image velocimetry. Image Acquisition Toolbox enables engineers and scientists with PC-compatible imaging hardware to capture images and video into Matlab and Simulink for iterative image acquisition, processing, and analysis. The new version lets a broader class of engineers and scientists create customized imaging applications for embedded systems and scientific research.Image Acquisition Toolbox provides functions for detecting hardware automatically, configuring hardware properties, and previewing an acquisition. In addition to Hamamatsu and QImaging, the toolbox supports the hardware vendors DALSA (formerly Coreco), Data Translation, and Matrox Imaging. Image Acquisition Toolbox combined with Matlab and Image Processing Toolbox lets engineers and scientists visualize data, develop unique processing algorithms and analysis techniques, and create graphical user interfaces. By using these products with Matlab Compiler, they can turn their work into self-contained applications that run independently of Matlab. With Simulink, Image Acquisition Toolbox, and Video and Image Processing Blockset, engineers can rapidly prototype design ideas for real-time embedded imaging systems and test them with real-time images or video from DirectX-compatible devices. This workflow helps reveal errors before designs are committed to hardware, when errors are easier and less expensive to fix. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |