How to use Surface pro 4 Camera in Matlab

Hi everyone,

I want to ask about how to implement my surface pro 4 camera into matlab for testing computer vision toolbox

I did download the MATLAB support package for USB webcams, however, I'm still not able to use my use my camera in MATLAB

In the Command Window, I did text webcam to check but here is the error:

Error using webcam (line 116)

Error. The format exposed by the webcam is not supported.

Really appreciate all of your help

Answer 1

[Meeshawn Marathe]

Surface Pro laptop’s inbuilt camera uses a color format which is currenlty not supported with the "webcam" command. Alternatively, if you do have Image Acquisition Toolbox installed, then you can install the “Image Acquisition Toolbox Support Package for OS Generic Video Interface” and then use the following command to create a camera object:

>> v = videoinput(‘winvideo’,1)

Answer 2

[Harshit Jain]

Hi Nguyen, you can refer to this documentation - Windows Video Hardware. It will help you figure out why you are having trouble using the Image Acquisition Toolbox™ software with a supported Windows® video acquisition device.