How to use appdesigner to congtrol GIGE camera to take picture of industrial parts?

How to import pictures into appdesigner, and record the file name and file location of the picture

How to call appdesigner to control the GIGE industrial camera to take pictures of the parts, and further perform image processing on the photos of the parts

Answer 1

[Rahul]

Hi @Andy Zhao,

In order to obtain an image in MATLAB AppDesigner, consider using the 'uiimage' component in your MATLAB AppDesigner app and add the required photo using it's browse functionality.

The following MATLAB answer also mentions the use of 'uiimage':

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/393964-matlab-appdesigner-can-i-import-images

The same can be also be done using 'uigetfile' and adding the image to a 'UIAxes'. The following MATLAB Answer mentions the same:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/468175-how-to-load-an-image-file-in-app-designer

Additionally, the GIGE camera can be used with the MATLAB AppDesigner app by installing 'GigE Vision Support from Image Acquisition Toolbox' from File Exchange. The camera can be invoked using 'gigecam' function as 'app.cam' in a 'startupFcn' callback of the app. Further, the following tutorials can be referred to understand how to work with 'gigecam':

https://www.mathworks.com/help/imaq/acquire-images-from-gige-vision-cameras.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/imaq/create-an-app-for-live-image-acquisition.html

The following MathWorks documentations can referred for more information:

'uiimage': https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/matlab/ref/uiimage.html

'uigetfile': https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/matlab/ref/uigetfile.html

'GigE Vision Support from Image Acquisition Toolbox': https://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/gige.html

Thanks.