Basler camera driver

A universal MATLAB driver for Basler cameras

Until now, interfacing Basler cameras in MATLAB was a cumbersome task. MATLAB offers no general support for USB3 Vision cameras, and the GigE driver is rather buggy. This driver package provides an open-source C++ interface between MATLAB and Basler's Pylon interface. This allows for an easy, efficient, interface-independent image acquisition.
This driver was developed at the ICOM Institute for Communication Systems at HSR University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil.

Functions:
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- baslerFindCamera: returns a cell array containing the camera index and the camera name.
- baslerCameraInfo: returns a struct containing all parameters of the selected camera.
- baslerSetParameter: sets a camera parameter.
- baslerGetParameter: returns the selected camera parameter.
- baslerSetROI: sets the region of interest (ROI).
- baslerPreview: displays a preview image.
- baslerGetData: captures and returns the selected number of frames.
- baslerSaveData: captures and saves the selected number of frames to disk.

Build:
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The MATLAB Basler Camera Driver is built by calling the provided make.m file. If the build fails, please verify that Boost and Pylon are installed and the path variables set correctly. Further check the include paths (Line 34-38) and the linker paths (Lines 42-44) in make.m. This driver was developed and tested on Windows 7, using MATLAB R2014a, Boost 1.55 and Basler Pylon 4.2.0.

Cameras:
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This driver should work with any Basler camera. If it is accessible and works with Basler Pylon Viewer, it should work with this driver too. I'm happy about feedback on different cameras. So far it has been verified on the following cameras:
- acA1600-20gc - GigE Vision camera
- acA2000-165um - USB3.0 Vision camera
- raL8192-12gm - GigE Vision line scan camera

Feature Suggestions and Bug Reports:
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This driver package is hosted on Github (https://github.com/HBadertscher/Matlab_BaslerCamDriver). Feel free to add feature suggestions, as well as bug reports as issue on Github.

License:
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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Hannes Badertscher, ICOM Institute for Communication Systems at HSR University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland - icom.hsr.ch

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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