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I am using the Bumblebee2 camera and I am having trouble with acquiring stereo images from it. When I attempt to access the camera using MATLAB, the program crashes.

Does anyone know how I can acquire the stereo images using FlyCapture?

Dima
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    What program? How does it crash? What is the error message? You will need to give us a lot more information before we can get a sense of what the problem might be. – Nicu Stiurca Oct 26 '14 at 18:19
  • Why not using Triclops SDK for capturing? You should also be able do download several Code Examples from Point Grey. – Steffen Oct 27 '14 at 08:03
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    Image Acquisition toolbox does support Bumblebee2 camera. What MATLAB version are you using? Can you come through MATLAB tech support and we should be able to definitely help you? – user3704817 Feb 25 '15 at 14:02

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Matlab cannot read the BumbleBee 2 output directly. To do that you'll have to record the stream and process it offline. I wrote a proprietary recorder based on the code samples in the SDK. You can split the left/right images and record each one in a separate video container (e.g. using OpenCV to write a compressed avi file). Later, you can load these images into memory, and use Triclops to compute disparity maps (or alternatively, use OpenCV to run other algorithms, like semi-global block matching).

Flycapture can capture image series or video clips, but you have less control over what you get. I suggest you use the code samples to write a simple recorder, and then load your output into Matlab in standard ways. Consult the Point Grey tech support.

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