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 BASIC VIDEO TOOLS
 Jesus Malo            jesus.malo@uv.es 
 Juan Gutierrez
 Valero Laparra
 (c) Universitat de Valencia. 1996-2014
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 (1) What is in this toolbox?
 (2) What is not in here?
 (3) Installation and requirements
 (4) How to get started?


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 (1) WHAT IS IN BASIC VIDEO TOOLS?
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 BasicVideoTools is a Matlab/Octave Toolbox intendend to deal with video data.
 In particular, it includes convenient *.m files to:
 
 - Read standard (VQEG and LIVE) video data 
 - Rearrange video data (as for instance to perform statistical analysis)
 - Generate controlled sequences (controlled contrast, texture, and 2d and 3d speed)
 - Compute 3D Fourier transforms
 - Play with motion perception models (motion-sensitive cells and spatio-temporal CSF)
 - Visualize movies (achromatic only)

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 (2) What IS NOT in BasicVideoTools ?
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 BasicVideoTools does not include: 
 - Motion estimation/compensation algorithms  
 - Video Coding algorithms
 - Video Quality Mesures 
 
 If you are looking for the above, please consider downloading other Toolboxes:

 - Motion estimation: http://isp.uv.es/Video_coding.html  (Hierarchical Block Matching)
                      http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Optic_flow

 - Video Coding (improved MPEG): http://isp.uv.es/Video_coding.html  

 - Video Quality:     http://isp.uv.es/Video_quality.html

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 (3) INSTALLATION AND REQUIREMENTS
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 - Download BasicVideoTools_code.zip from http://isp.uv.es/Basic_Video.html
 - Decompress at your machine in the folder BasicVideoTools (no location restrictions for this folder)
 - Update the matlab/octave path including all subfolders

 - Tested on Matlab 2006b

 * Video and image data are given in separate (and optional) files to 
   simplify the download process (big files!)
   These databases are useful to gather video statistics
         image_data.zip
         video_data.zip 
          
   If you use these data please cite the VQEG and LIVE databases (for video), 
   and the CVC Barcelona Database (for images) 

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 (4) HOW TO GET STARTED?
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 For a general overview please take a look at the contents.m file: just type, help BasicVideoTools
 For additional details on how to use the functions in practice, see the demos:

  demo_motion_programs         - Demo on how to use most functions (except random dots and newtonian sequences)
  example_random_dots_sequence - Demo on random dots sequences with controlled flow
  example_newtonian_sequence   - Demo on physics-controlled sequences

