Devling into Dynamic Textures

This past week I've shifted gears toward understanding and applying dynamic texture recognition to fire detection. I started by reading Dynamic Texture Recognition by Saisan, P., Doretto, G., Wu, Y. N., and Soatto, S. which was a very confusing experience since it was missing all of the critical details. I then read the precursor paper Dynamic Textures by Doretto, G., Chiuso, A., Wu, Y. N., and Soatto, S. which helped fill in most of the missing parts for me.

The next thing I did was to try to reproduce the algorithm laid out in Dynamic Textures but was stimied by Matlab's inability to read in my training videos using aviread(). After poking around online it sounds like I might have better luck with Matlab's newer video reader function called mmreader(). Unfrotunately mmreader() is part of Matlab 7.7 and I only have Matlab 7.4. I tried downloading someone elses homemade video reader but it seemed to infinitely loop or just take forever on a 5MB video.

Currently I'm out looking for small animals to sacrifice to MathWorks™....