>Psychtoolbox>PsychGLImageProcessing

scal = DisplayUndistortionLabRiggerMouseStim(caliboutfilename[, screenid])

Hi-Def TV for mice - Courtesy of Labrigger.

CAUTION: This is not a finished, polished routine, but a template for
actual producers of TV for mice to get started. Make sure you understand
this code before using it!

Geometric display calibration procedure for undistortion of distorted
displays. Needs graphics hardware with basic support for the PTB imaging
pipeline.

This one is an example of how to integrate sample code from LabRigger
for visual stimulation of a mouse with a single flat screen. It does the
neccessary undistortion. For explanation and detail go to the original
code and method presented at:

http://labrigger.com/blog/2012/03/06/mouse-visual-stim/comment-page-1/

Please note this is quickly hacked together throwaway sample code. It
almost literally copy and pasted the code from LabRigger into the
subroutine MouseStim() and then converts its output calibration matrices
into a calibration file useable by Psychtoolbox DisplayUndistortionCSV
method, so these undistortions can be applied to live visual stimuli
fast and in realtime. All display and stimulation setup parameters are
hard-coded in MouseStim(). Somebody should really clean up this routine
and test it on a real stimulation setup. If you’ve successfully done so,
please contribute the enhanced version of this M-File back to the PTB
for integration into future releases.

General boiler-plate description of working and use:

Psychtoolbox can “undistort” your visual stimuli for you: At stimulus
onset time, PTB applies a geometric warping transformation to your
stimulus which is meant to counteract or cancel out the geometric
distortion caused by your display device. If both, PTB’s warp transform
and the implicit distortion transform of the display match, your stimulus
will show up undistorted on the display device.

For this to work, PTB needs a non-ancient graphics card with support for
the PTB imaging pipeline. All ATI/AMD cards starting with Radeon 9500 and
all NVidia cards of type GeForce-FX5200 and later, as well as the Intel-GMA 950
and later should be able to do it, although more recent cards will have a higher
performance.

DisplayUndistortionLabRiggerMouseStim defines a continous mapping
(x’, y’) = f(x, y) from uncorrected input pixel locations (x,y) in
your stimulus image to output locations (x’, y’) on your display.
This mapping is defined by a linear mesh of quadrilaterals, as computed
in the subfunction MouseStim().

How to use

Execute the function with the following parameters:

caliboutfilename Name of the file to which calibration results should
be stored. If no name is provided, the file will be stored inside the
‘GeometryCalibration’ subfolder of your Psychtoolbox configuration
directory (path is PsychToolboxConfigDir(‘GeometryCalibration’). The
filename will contain the screenid of the display that was calibrated.

screenid screen id of the target display for calibration. The parameter
is optional, defaults to zero, and is only used to generate the default
filename for the output file.

This script will print out a little snippet of code that you can paste
and include into your experiment script - That will automatically load
the calibration result file and apply the proper undistortion operation.

You can see an example use of it in ImagingVideoCaptureDemo.m

A quick way to test your calibration created with this script is to
call ImageUndistortionDemo (caliboutfilename, ‘checkerboard’). However,
for production use you’d rather use your calibration via PsychImaging,
as shown in ImagingVideoCaptureDemo or the code snippet printed by this
function.