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Digitizing Tools
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DLTdataviewer2MATLAB tools for digitizing video files and calibrating cameras

Features:
  • Reads from AVI movie files 
  • Zooms in or out to any degree
  • Configurable automatic marker tracking
  • Displays up to 4 video streams
  • When in calibrated mode, displays the line of zero residual for the 2nd point given a 1st point
  • Allows user-specified video stream offsets
  • Change the gamma of the video images
  • Load, view and modify previously digitized points
  • Export camera view information to Maya
  • Requires MATLAB 7 or newer (full or student version), the Image Analysis toolbox is required for marker centroid identification
Citation update - a description of the digitizing package and some of the inner workings was recently published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics; please cite this paper when you publish work using this software.

Downloadable package with the MATLAB code and some documentation  - Recendly updated (Jan. 18, 2009) -
DigitizingTools_20090118.zip

Sample data: Calibrated video of a bat flying in a wind tunnel (29 megabytes)

Tutorials: These require either a recent version of Quicktime player (for the Quicktime versions) or the DivX video codec (for the avi versions of Tutorials 1 and 2) or the Xvid codec (Tutorial 3)
Tutorial 1: basic operations and 2d tracking: Quicktime version (31 megabytes) -or- avi version (29 megabytes)
Tutorial 2: 3D digitizing:  Quicktime version (31 megabytes) -or- avi version (35 megabytes)
Tutorial 3: 3D calibration:  Quicktime version (40 megabytes) -or- avi version (35 megabytes)

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© Tyson Hedrick, 2009