Product category: Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: The MathWorks | Subject: Image Acquisition Toolbox 2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 February 2007
Upgrade for high-speed video capture
Image Acquisition Toolbox 2 supports QImaging and Hamamatsu cameras used in fields such as fluorescence microscopy and particle image velocimetry
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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 in Matlab and Simulink for iterative image acquisition, processing and analysis.
This new version lets a broader class of engineers and scientists create customised imaging applications for embedded systems and scientific research.
'Image Acquisition Toolbox gives engineers and scientists who develop imaging solutions in Matlab and Simulink a consistent interface across a wide range of imaging devices, from inexpensive web cameras or industrial frame-grabbers to high-end scientific cameras', said Bruce Tannenbaum, Technical Marketing Manager at The MathWorks.
'With this upgrade, engineers and scientists who need high-speed video capture or low-light capabilities can use cameras from Hamamatsu and QImaging'.
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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 enables engineers and scientists visualise 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.
'The MathWorks is an industry leader of cutting-edge software needed by engineers and scientists to develop advanced imaging applications and systems', said Nigel Van Luinen, product manager for QImaging.
'We are pleased that users of our hardware can now benefit from Image Acquisition Toolbox'.
Image Acquisition Toolbox 2 is available immediately for the Microsoft Windows platform.
Commercial UK list prices start at GBP 700.
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