standard test videos for video processing

Question

So.. In image processing, lena is the standard image for testing out algorithms in the research community. Similarly.. Are there any standard videos for testing out MATLAB codes for video processing?

Answer 1

There are also commonly used video sequences – though to a degree it depends on the type of video algorithm you're developing (reflected in the level of motion, type of motion, resolution etc.) and the file type you want (e.g. YUV, compressed).

As a starting point, foreman.yuv, Carphone.yuv, akiyo.yuv, bus.yuv, coastguard.yuv, flower.yuv.

For example googling the above turned up a reasonable looking repositories at the following:

• YUV Video Sequences – ASU
• Derf's Test Video Collection at xiph.org

Lately, the Blender clips Big Buck Bunny, Tears of Steel and Sintel have been more frequently used, as they are available in HD and 4K resolutions as well as in stereo 3D.

Answer 2

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I came across some builtin sample/demo files in a matlab blog post: http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/01/10/colormap-manipulations/

Apparently the files clown and cameraman are builtin and you can just load them using load clown or load cameraman.

It depends however on the installed toolboxes: clown is from the wavelet toolbox and cameraman from the image processing toolbox. They both can be found on the matlab path of course, so you can always look around there. You'll also there find the files: autumn, board, canoe, cell, circbw, circuit,...

EDIT: also: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1376-finding-example-images-in-the-distribution

But for video I personally haven't seen anything like that in matlab

EDIT2: I stand corrected: in the vision toolbox, there are some example videos, in the visiondemos subdirectory of the toolbox. Just search for avi files on the matlab install directory