Matlab: accessing both image sequences from a 3D video file - matlab

I have recorded a 3D video using a Fujifilm Finepix Real 3d w3 camera. The resulting video file is a single AVI, so the frames from both lenses must somehow be incorporated within the single file.
I now wish to read in the video into Matlab such that I have two image sequences, each corresponding to either the left lens or the right lens.
So far I have played back the AVI file using the computer vision toolbox functions (vision.VideoFileReader etc), however it ignores one of the lenses and plays back only a single lens' image sequence.
How do I access both image sequences within Matlab?

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MATLAB: webcam video acquisition

The Logitech C910 webcam spec indicates image and video capture. Because image and video capture are listed separately, I am assuming that they are encoded and sent differently: effectively forming two different 'channels' to select from. If this understanding is incorrect, please respond with an explanation of the true nature.
This reference indicates a maximum frame-rate of 15 because of windows.
My search returned webcam video acquisition that comprises a series of time lapsed images 'stitched' together
% Connect to the webcam.
cam = webcam
% Open Video File
vidWriter = VideoWriter('frames.avi');
open(vidWriter);
% Write images file
for index = 1:20
% Acquire frame for processing
img = snapshot(cam);
% Write frame to video
writeVideo(vidWriter,img);
end
%Close file and cam
close(vidWriter);
clear cam
MATLAB has captured successfully images with the C910.
Question
If possible within MATLAB, how does one configure the webcam's **video* frame rate and save the video stream to .avi or the like? (not writing still images to video file as depicted above).
Perhaps someone with experience or sharper Google skills can provide an example of bridging the webcam's video (vs the image) stream into MATLAB. Any example that can be tested is greatly appreciated.
A good way to 'jumpstart' or accelerate newbie familiarity is with the image acquisition tool:
imaqtool
The tool seems to be GUI wrapper that reduces the command-line syntax to a GUI. Note that the bottom right panel shows the command line equivalent of a GUI interaction.
Configurable video capture paramaters comprise:
Resolution & ROI (Region of Interest)
Frame Rate
Video type (.avi .mp4) etc.

How do I interpret an Intel Realsense camera depth map in MATLAB?

I was able to view and capture the image from the depth stream in MATLAB (using the webcam from the Hardware Support Package) from an F200 Intel Realsense camera. However, it does not look the same way as it does in the Camera Explorer.
What I see from MATLAB -
I have also linked Depth.mat that contains the image in the variable "D".
The image is returned as a 3 dimensional array of uint8. I assumed that the depth stream is a larger number that is broken in bits in each plane and tried bitshifting each plane and adding it to the next while taking care of the datatypes. Then displayed it using imagesc, but did not get a proper depth image.
How do I properly interpret this image? Or, is there an alternate way to capture images in MATLAB?

Approach for plotting 3D animated joints and ability to rotate camera (MATLAB?)

I have generated a CSV file from an OpenNI program that tracks skeleton joints.
The CSV file contains the frame number, confidence value, and xyz positions of each joint all separated by columns.
I'd like to plot the extracted points and display them in a video. While I have done this before using MATLAB and generated movie files with it, I was wondering what would be a good approach to be able to create a video file of these 3D joints where a user can rotate the video's camera 360 degrees?
Should I continue to explore that through MATLAB? Is there a way I can do this through OpenNI? Any suggestions would be incredibly appreciated.
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how to generation animation as mpg or speed up gif in matlab

I am plotting a randomly walking points on the figure and trying to capture the motion at each step by getframe. After I collect all the frames, I output the result as avi with movie2avi, but the output file was so big to fit into my presentation. I am looking for a way to export the movie to mp4, anyone have any idea? I also try to use the 3rd party movie2gif, it save the size to huge extent but when I play the gif, it looks so unsmooth
In later versions of Matlab (e.g. 2012) it is done by creating and writing a video object. For example, the following code generates movie of a randomly moving circle. You can adjust the speed of the movie with the FrameRate and the size with the Quality properties. For more details see the Matlab documentation.
vobj=VideoWriter('MyMovieFile', 'Motion JPEG AVI');
vobj.FrameRate=4;
vobj.Quality=75
open(vobj);
for i=1:100
plot(rand,rand,'o')
F=getframe(gcf);
writeVideo(vobj, F);
cla(gca)
end
close(vobj)

Position Extraction and Tracking in Matlab

I am not a good programmer, and I am new to Matlab. I have recorded video of myself juggling 3 balls of different colors (Red, White, and Yellow). I used uncompressed .avi files at 30fps, and have around 460Gb of data. My plan is to use ~1 minute of video (1800 frames) from each recording and make a 2D position (y-axis) vs. time (x-axis) graph. Each ball would be on the graph drawn in its own color. I have downloaded this script
(http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28512-simplecolordetectionbyhue--)
but I am not sure if this is a good place to start or not. Any suggestions? I can play the videos just fine using implay, but VideoReader seems to have a problem since the file is quite large.