Image Acquisition Toolbox
Acquire images and video from industry-standard hardware
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Image Acquisition Toolbox provides functions and blocks for connecting cameras to MATLAB and Simulink. It includes a MATLAB app that lets you interactively detect and configure hardware properties. You can then generate equivalent MATLAB code to automate your acquisition in future sessions. The toolbox enables acquisition modes such as processing in-the-loop, hardware triggering, background acquisition, and synchronizing acquisition across multiple devices.
Image Acquisition Toolbox supports all major standards and hardware vendors, including USB3 Vision, GigE Vision®, and GenICam™ GenTL. You can connect to machine vision cameras and frame grabbers, as well as high-end scientific and industrial devices.
Imaging Standards
Image Acquisition Toolbox supports major vision standards, including GenICam GenTL, GigE Vision, and UVC (USB Video Class/OS Generic Video Interface on Windows, Mac, and Linux) over physical interfaces such as USB2, USB3, CoaXPress, IEEE1394 DCAM/IIDC – FireWire, Camera Link, and PCIe.
Imaging Hardware
Connect to a variety of scientific and industrial cameras, area scan cameras, line scan cameras, USB3 Vision cameras, USB webcams, frame grabbers, Kinect, and hardware vendor SDKs. Supports acquisition of various types of images such as high dynamic range (HDR), optical, depth, polarization, thermal infrared, and short-wave infrared (SWIR).
Visual Inspection
Develop, verify, and validate algorithm design for visual inspection applications using live images and videos from real hardware.
App for Image and Video Acquisition
Connect, preview, configure, and acquire image and video data using the Image Acquisition Explorer app. Create custom apps using App Designer. Deploy custom apps with MATLAB Compiler for execution on systems that do not have MATLAB installed.
Triggering and Customizing Acquisition
Trigger video and image acquisition from internal or external events and sources. Use event callbacks to perform processing in response to events. Integrate callback functions into responsive, custom apps. Continuously acquire and process video and image data in the background with logging capabilities.
Imaging System Design and Code Generation
Acquire live video and image data into Simulink models to design imaging systems. C and C++ code generation from MATLAB and Simulink is supported for Desktop Hosts to acquire live images and video.
Medical Imaging
Acquire, analyze, and visualize medical images, and develop imaging algorithms for a wide range of medical devices.
Scientific Imaging
Connect to scientific cameras to acquire images and perform scientific studies in astrophotography, neuroscience, and microscopy such as astronomical phenomena, neuroimaging, and AI-powered microscopy respectively.
Automotive and Industrial Applications
Acquire images and video for use with sensor fusion, lidar, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms. Augment decision making processes and develop vision-based applications such as maintenance systems and Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS).
Product Resources:
“Image Acquisition Toolbox is about three times faster than previous methods [to capture a hyperspectral image]. Image Acquisition Toolbox also gives us complete control of the camera hardware, so we will see bigger gains by acquiring only the regions and spectra we need.”
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