Image Acquisition - Resolution

Hello,

I am trying to get a picture using a webcam in MatLab. I am successfully able to obtain the picture and such by using the following code:

picture = videoinput('macvideo',1);
cam_image_rgb = getsnapshot(picture);
imshow(cam_image_rgb)

By default, the resolution of the image is set to 1280x720. How would I go about changing this to 800x600? I am aware that I can do this manually by clicking on 800x600 within the toolbox; however, I cannot use the toolbox as this project cannot have any manual intervention. Therefore, I am using the code above within the .m file.

[Jake Bolanski]

Here is the result I obtain when I do:

propinfo(picture, 'VideoResolution')

ans =

Type: 'double'

Constraint: 'none'

ConstraintValue: []

DefaultValue: [1280 720]

ReadOnly: 'always'

DeviceSpecific: 0

Any clue on how I would change the [1280 720] to [800 600]? set(propinfo(picture, 'VideoResolution'), [800 600]) yields "Error using set

Conversion to double from struct is not possible."

Answer 1

[Jake Bolanski]

Okay this was much easier than I originally thought. Depending on what is visible under your camera in the actual Image Acquisition Toolbox, you can easily pick the correct resolution (assuming your camera supports it) by:

    picture = videoinput('macvideo',1,'YCbCr422_1280x720');

where the 'YCbCr422_1280x720' should be changed to 'YCbCr422_800x600' or whatever your camera names it as.

[Image Analyst]

I thought you couldn't use the toolbox functions.