A small bug in "Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab"

Today, when I use the toolbox for calibration, it gives a error :
"
??? Error using ==> eq
Matrix dimensions must agree.

Error in ==> loadpgm at 68
elseif ~any(c == white)

"

The images is PGM format. These errors come from "loadpgm.m" file. I find that when the error happens, the c is empty, which means the reader pointer is getting the end of file.

In the "loadpgm.m" file, the program likes:
"
maxval = fscanf(fid, '%d', 1);
while 1
c = fread(fid,1,'char');
if c == '#',
fgetl(fid);
elseif ~any(c == white)
fseek(fid, -1, 'cof'); % unputc()
break;
end
end

"

The program read maxval correctly, so it is going on and checking next value, if it's '#' or says 35, then the program will read a row line. What happens here, the interesting thing is the first image data value is 35, which is not '#', but just a interger value 35. The program "think" it's '#', and get the whole line which contain all image data, so next time ,it finds it goes to end of file.

I change the first image data to 36, then it works very well. The matlab function imread works well here for this special case.

The errors and solutions when compiling the levmar with lapack

Well, there are a lot of errors. I google a lot to find solutions, and I add them here. Good for newbies.

Q1. undefined reference to `MAIN__'
S: add '-u MAIN_' in the GCC part of Makefile

Q2. undefined symbol: _gfortran_concat_string
S: add '-gfortran' in the GCC part of Makefile

Q3. misuse the command matlab mex with the command mex from pdfTeXK.
S: replace 'mex' by whole directory '/where your matlab is/bin/mex' in Makefile


Q4. multiple definition of `xerbla_'
S: set 'LAPACKBLASLIBS_PATH=/usr/lib/atlas' in the Makefile of matlab subfolder

conflict command in linux: matlab mex with mex from pdflatex

In the Ubuntu, two commands have same name. The way to solve this problem is to use command name with whole directory, e.g, /opt/matlab/bin/mex. You can use this whole name instead of short name "mex" in the Makefile.

Linux Matlab and German keyboard

The new linux version matlab (e.g. R2008, R2009) can not work with german keyboard, it works following the english keyboard map.
I have tried a lot method and it still can not work until today (great day)!
When I run matlab, it show me a error message:
"
********************************libjvm.so
[0xb31ab8ec]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:"

It can not lock the java. The reason is it find the wrong one. The solution is run a command shell and type:
"export MATLAB_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.17/jre
"

Now it correctly show the character of the german keyboard. Of course, you may have different version of JAVA and install directory that you must figure out, and use yours instead mine. You also can add this command to your "~/.bashrc" file, so that every time you login, you donot have to run this command manually.


But the symbols "^" and "~" still can not work in this Linux. I test this method on Windows Vista, both symbols can work.
On Vista, open a command prompt, then use command setx to set the variable MATLAB_JAVA:
"setx "MATLAB_JAVA" "C:\*************""

How to print nice figure on matlab

Here is an example that can print current figure to a eps file with DPI=300 .

figure;
print(gcf, '-depsc','-r300', figname);

"gcf" means the current figure. "-depsc" means save as eps color image. "-r300" means 300dpi, "figname" should be something like "name.eps"

Image coordinate and World coordinate

If you want to show a world coordinate image by OpenCv or Matlab, you need to know the difference between Image coordinate system and the world coordinate system.

The main difference is the original point, which is uper-left in image coordinate and bottom-middle in IPM (Inverse projection mapping)world coordinate.