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  1. Overview
  2. Viewing live images
    1. Image processing panel
  3. Collecting image images
    1. Saving and loading datasets
  4. Browsing through image datasets and analyzing single images
  5. Analyzing a single image

Overview

ImgMan (short for Image Management) consists of the Image Acquisition, Image Browser, and Image Analysis windows.

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In the Image Acquistion window, you select a camera and check the "Show Live Image" box. After a short delay, the window expands, and you can see the live image as well as the image processing panel, which can be found on all three main windows of ImgMan and is thus discussed on its own below(see below).

Image Processing Panel 

This Image Processing panel contains widgets for setting image processing parameters, e.g.  slicing, background subtraction, filters, cropping, color mapps, annotations (centroids), unit scales, the image processing algorithm. Some ImgMan applies some of the parameters can be applied directly, for others you must press the "Apply" button must be pressed (if this seems tedious, (or you can check the "Instant" Apply box).

Collecting

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Images 

In the Image Acquisition window, specify After specifying the desired number of background and beam images, you and press the "Measure" button. If you don't want to save images locally, uncheck "Save Images" box. You can follow the progress of the measurment either in the Image Acquisition window or in cmlog. Each measurement results in one dataset of images. When the measurement is finished, the number on the dataset label increases by 1.

Saving and Loading Datasets

Press "Save" button to open "Save As..." dialog and save your image datasets. Press "Load" button to open a "Load..." dialog and load image datasets.

Browsing through image datasets

In the Image Acquisition window, press the "Browse..." button to open the image browser. You can select a dataset, browse images, and specify image processing parameters through an Image Processing panel (see above).

Analyzing a single image

In the Image Browser window, press the "Analyze..." button to open an Image Analysis window for the corresponding image. Image Analysis also contains an Image Procressing panel (see above).