Most of the simulations I perform in the MATLAB, so I almost not familar with LABVIEW, but It is a tool that can be very useful. I am mainly interested in the books describing the implementation of the Imaging (3D imaging, Hyperspectral imaging and Holography) in the LABVIEW. Thank you in advance!
I have personally always found it difficult to learn any form of programming from a text book as the progression may not always be relevant, and updates to the software can soon make your textbook out of date.
That said, the book recommended by Michael does look like a good one for your purposes.
National Instrumensts have a good guides and to explain how to use specific functions, both in the software help and online.
The NI community site is also useful for advice and inspiration, with example programs available and answers to problems that other users have come across.
http://www.ni.com/labview/community/
If you have a certain process in mind, that you have looked at using mat lab, the same will most certainly be possible in Labview, as although the appearance of Labview code is completely different, all the same elements exist.
Vlad,
I can tell you from a personal experience that while LABVIEW is very useful for controlling an experiment and data collection (perhaps, with some pre-processing) I wouldn't use it for true modeling purposes. Why? Because MATLAB can do it better, it was designed for it. LABVIEW, however was designed with a completely different objective in mind. So, why do you want using LABVIEW?
Since I have almost zero experience in the LABVIEW, so I'm trying to figure out if I can use it for the purpose of my research. I want understand, is there any significance to spend a lot of time and suddenly discover that it is not a suitable tool for me.
Vlad,
Are going to have an automated experimental set-up that should be controlled with a LABVIEW written program?
Once, I had, but a LABVIEW written program was written not by me, so I do not I have accumulated experience writing in LABVIEW. Later, I may need program on LABVIEW for data acquisition, the question is what can I add in addition to this?
I see. I've faced a similar problem: data were acquired under LABVIEW program but following analysis was done using MATLAB. We had nearly a hundred of files (3000 columns by 180 rows) that were converted to matrices and for matrices MATLAB is the king!
If you develop the skills in LabView programming, you might find that LabView is an excellent language for mathematical modeling. It handles complex numbers and arrays very well, and it has an exceptionally deep set of mathematical functions and algorithms for integral transforms, filters, optimization etc. And it is very convenient for building up interactive user interfaces.
Hi Vladimir
In my image processing course I checked the book Michael Young is posting and I found it very useful; but if, as you said, your expertise on Labview is limited you should take a look on this book first
http://www.amazon.com/LabVIEW-Everyone-Graphical-Programming-Edition/dp/0131856723
it covers almost all basic labview topics in a simplified way, which I think is important before to start with a specific toolbox such as image processing
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