Hey kupikupi,
To answer you questions:
Q1) Will LabVIEW be able to solve the parallel processing faced by MATLAB?
A) LabVIEW can perform parallel processing.
Q2) If I do everything in labview except the recognition part where i interface MATLAB with LabVIEW, will the parallel processing problem be solved?
A) If you perform your image acquisition in LabVIEW, but then interface with MATLAB, you will have to deal with passing pointers to images, or 2D arrays, or however you want to pass the images from one environment to the other. This is not going to be really easy, but it is possible. But if you do the acquisition in LabVIEW, and the processing in MATLAB, you will have partial parallel performance, but it will not solve any parallel processing on the part of MATLAB. It will still only be able to do that as it did before. The only thing I can think that can run in parallel would be acquiring in one part, and then process in another. But I think your real parallel processing issue will not be resolved.
Q3) Is it better to do the whole image processing and recognition using LabVIEW? A) I would recommend performing your image acquisition and your processing all using LabVIEW so you don't have to worry about the passing data back and forth between environments. If you are going to be doing image processing in LabVIEW, then you will need the Vision Development Module, which gives you the image processing VI's (functions).
Q4) Since Im new with labview, is there any step by step guide on how to use IMAQ? or must i learn the basics of Labview 1st?
A) I would recommend that you learn the basics of LabVIEW before you jump into using the Image Acquisition or Image Processing VI's. There is a great resource on NI's website called
Learn LabVIEW in 3 Hours that I think you should go through if you are new to LabVIEW. Then, after you think you are comfortable with LabVIEW in general, you can take a look at the IMAQ Example programs to get you started with IMAQ. Also, there is a lot of helpful information with the NI-IMAQ for LabVIEW Help documentation. There is another great document called
Getting Started with NI-IMAQ that should also be helpful. If you need more information about IMAQ, you can check out the resources available at
www.ni.com/vision.
I hope this answers your questions, and helps get you started. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns. Thanks, and have a great day.
Regards,
DJ L.