Application of Computer Vision to Laboratory Experiments

Abstract

Computer vision has been applied in many fields. We demonstrate some simple applications of computer vision to improve the accuracy of laboratory experiments. The techniques used require only a camera in a mobile phone. Individual frames can be extracted from the video using PYTHON/MATLAB. Further processing of the images can be used to accurately measure the time period of oscillation or rotational time periods. The techniques described can be easily extended to a variety of fields.