Compiling OpenCV-3.0 with Matlab Support

A big uppercase HELLO to everyone!  I am back and after a long time (yet again) I am going to write a tutorial. The thing I am able to achieve here is awesome for us computer vision researchers. Yes! you heard it correct, exciting stuff.

I have been using OpenCV for quite sometime now. As good as it is for real-time computer vision applications, it can also be time consuming when it comes to exploring and implementing new research designs. Matlab on the other hand has always been flexible and a quick work around to achieve my research goals. The only problem, though, with matlab is that it is not real-time or even worse is that if you plan to implement code in OpenCV for real-time application, you would have to write the algorithms all over again as the usage of Matlab toolboxes is different than using the same methods in OpenCV.

Now comes the fun part, what if you can access OpenCV function calls within Matlab code? What if you can have easily transferable code from Matlab to C++?  This is all possible now with the OpenCV 3.0 Dev including matlab mex wrappers, which really is a good big step in the right direction. So lets start compiling the code.

Computer Vision in Matlab

Over the time of my research I have found out that it is really difficult to get access to actual codes that different authors use in their implementation for their publication.

I just found out about a very good link where you can find basic algorithms and  implementations of different image processing techniques which can be useful for a person doing research in these field.

Here is the link ( Peter's Functions for Computer Vision ):
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~pk/research/matlabfns/

Kudos to the University of Australia for putting this online for other researchers.

Update 07/03/2013: Since I wrote this post, I have found numerous matlab implementation pages online. I am sharing a list below.

Right now I have just listed down all the available toolboxes and codes. I will be sorting and updating this list soon.

OpenCV-2.4.X Binaries pre-compiled with Visual C++ support

Update (07/05/2013):
Below are the different versions of OpenCV binaries I compiled from source on Windows 7 using Visual C++ 2010

1. OpenCV-2.4.3VC
2. OpenCV-2.4.5VC

You can use either one of the above binaries and set up as follows:
 

To set these binaries up, extract the contents of this folder. Edit the SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES to add the path to \bin folder similar to what has been done in my previous post

Please post any problems in comments below.