diff --git a/bbox/bb_click.m b/bbox/bb_click.m
index 845dfa2e..230ffb31 100644
--- a/bbox/bb_click.m
+++ b/bbox/bb_click.m
@@ -26,12 +26,18 @@
     imshow(img);
 end
 text(10,10,'Define bounding box and double click inside.','color','white');
-h = imrect;
-p = wait(h);
-bb = [p(1); p(2);p(1)+p(3); p(2)+p(4)];
+if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION', 'builtin')
+    % while we don't have a imrect equivalent in Octave
+    % use the hardcoded bellow (a centered 200x200 pixels box)
+    bb = [ 640/2-100; 480/2-100; 640/2+100; 480/2+100];
+else
+    h = imrect;
+    p = wait(h);
+    bb = [p(1); p(2);p(1)+p(3); p(2)+p(4)];
+end
 % [c,r,p] = impixel(img);
 % if length(c) ~= 2,
 %     bb = [];
 %     return;
 % end
-% bb = [c(1); r(1); c(2); r(2)];
\ No newline at end of file
+% bb = [c(1); r(1); c(2); r(2)];
diff --git a/img/img_get.m b/img/img_get.m
index b315adf4..69577372 100644
--- a/img/img_get.m
+++ b/img/img_get.m
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     else % We don't have the Image Acquisition package, using stream_server
 	if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION','builtin') % from octave
             [ data, count ] = recv (source.socket, 640*480, MSG_WAITALL);
+	    data = reshape (data, [640 480]);
             stream_img = transpose(data);
         else %from Matlab
             stream_img = transpose(fread(source.socket, [640, 480], 'uint8'));