Friday, September 2, 2016

How to Install Image Processing Design Toolbox in Scilab without using Atoms

Besides SIVP - or Scilab Image and Video Processing Toolbox, I'm a great fan of Harald Galda's Image Processing Design. It has morphological operations and blob analysis functions not found in SIVP. These functions are great for automating analysis of several regions of interest in a scene at once.

However, as of posting, IPD does not show up in Scilab's ATOMS Module Manager. So I looked for ways to install IPD bypassing ATOMS. Anyone who has done this in Linux or MacOS let me know. Here's what works for Windows:

1. Download IPD.
2. Open Scilab and type SCIHOME. SCIHOME gives the path where the modules are stored.
3. In Windows Explorer copy paste the SCIHOME path to open the folder. You should see a folder named 'atom'.
4. Unzip the IPD module in the 'atom' folder. The unzipped folder should have the name IPD and not the zip filename.
5. Search for 'loader.sce' in the IPD folder, open and execute in Scilab.
6. Check your Scilab console it should show something like:

Start IPD - Image Processing Design
Load macros
Load dependencies
Load gateways
Load help
Load demos

And that's how you know you've succesfully loaded IPD toolbox in your Scilab.

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