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Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginner's Guide

By : George Siogkas
Book Image

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginner's Guide

By: George Siogkas

Overview of this book

Whether you want to enhance your holiday photographs or make a professional banner image for your website, you need a software tool that offers you quick and easy ways to accomplish it. All-in-one tools tend to be rare, and Matlab is one of the best available.This book is a practical guide full of step-by-step examples and exercises that will enable you to use Matlab as a powerful, complete, and versatile alternative to traditional image and video processing software.You will start off by learning the very basics of grayscale image manipulation in Matlab to master how to analyze 3-dimensional images and videos using the same tool. The methods you learn here are explained and expanded upon so that you gradually reach a more advanced level in Matlab image and video processing. You will be guided through the steps of opening, transforming, and saving images, later to be mixed with advanced masking techniques both in grayscale and in color. More advanced examples of artistic image processing are also provided, like creating panoramic photographs or HDR images. The second part of the book covers video processing techniques and guides you through the processes of creating time-lapse videos from still images, and acquiring, filtering, and saving videos in Matlab. You will learn how to use many useful functions and tools that transform Matlab from a scientific software to a powerful and complete solution for your everyday image and video processing needs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a 3-D video from a regular one


But what happens if we do not have two cameras and we want to experiment with the 3-D video making process? Well, we can actually be creative. A left and right image from a stereoscopic video will ideally only have a horizontal shift of some pixels. This means that if we take a simple, monocular video and shift its frames towards one horizontal direction, we can create a synthetic right, or left image. More specifically, by shifting the frame to the right, we create a synthetic left frame and shifting it to the left, we create a synthetic right frame. Let's demonstrate this and adjust the previous example to work with a regular video.

  1. First, we will open a regular video. We can use one of the videos included in MATLAB. Here, we will use the video file rhinos.avi distributed with the Image Processing Toolbox:

    >> vid = VideoReader('rhinos.avi'); % Open video file
  2. Create and open a video to write our results in:

    >> sV = VideoWriter...