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News Release from: The MathWorks | Subject: Video and Image Processing Blockset
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 August 2004
New video and image processing system
designer
The MathWorks has announced the availability of the Video and Image Processing Blockset, a new product for designing embedded video and image processing systems.
The MathWorks has announced the availability of the Video and Image Processing Blockset, a new product for designing embedded video and image processing systems The Video and Image Processing Blockset allows imaging engineers in aerospace and defence, automotive, communications, consumer electronics, education, medical electronics, and other industries to rapidly build models, simulate algorithms and system behaviour, generate C-code for deployment on programmable processors, and verify their designs, all within the Simulink environment
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The new Video and Image Processing Blockset will eliminate many of the work flow pains that imaging designers have faced in communicating their specifications, and in developing, optimising, and debugging their systems." Additionally, model-based design enables engineers to model and simulate video, vision, or image processing components and systems in Simulink before a costly hardware implementation.
Users can now simulate and automatically generate floating- and fixed-point C code, easily migrating from floating- to fixed-point data types within the same model.
The Video and Image Processing Blockset accelerates the design stage so engineers can focus on developing their ideas instead of debugging code.
"We are working on real-time image processing with TI DSP (DM64x) as the target processors for a retinal prosthesis project," said Dr James Weiland of the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California.
"The Video and Image Processing Blockset makes the task of creating our design and working prototypes much simpler." The Video and Image Processing Blockset provides a rich, customisable framework for rapidly designing, simulating, implementing, and verifying video and image processing algorithms and systems.
Its library includes 2-D filters, conversions, geometric transformations, morphological operations, and transforms for rapid algorithm and system specification development.
The Video and Image Processing Blockset is available immediately for Microsoft Windows UNIX/Linux, and Macintosh platforms.
US list prices start at $1,000.
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