Basic requirement for color histogram & pattern matching.

[wm_poon]

I will do a student project about video & image(stored in PC) analysis using color histogram & pattern matching. I have LabVIEW6i only. What's the basic requirement for this analysis? vision module? Please suggest a simple and cheap requirement. Thanks all.

[rolfk]

It really depends what is the purpose of your student project. Is it about developing those routines yourself or is it about using ready made routines to research the possibilities and differences on different kind of pictures.
In the first case you already have everything necessary as you can perfectly well develop those routines in normal LabVIEW. Otherwise you would want to look into the IMAQ Vision Toolkit from National Instruments or the IVision Toolkit from Hytek Automation http://www.hytekautomation.com/Products/IVision.html. You can download the IVision Toolkit free for evaluation it just will regularly show a nag screen to remember you that this is not a licensed version.