046746. * Data Types * Image Representation * Image/Video I/O * Matrix access * Image Manipulation * MEX - MATLAB Executable * Data Visualization * General.

046746

*Matlab Image Processing

*Topics

*Data Types

*Image Representation

*Image/Video I/O

*Matrix access

*Image Manipulation

*MEX - MATLAB Executable

*Data Visualization

*General Tips

*Tricks

*Data Types

*Relevant data types*double – default in most cases

*single

*uint8 – [0 255]

*uint16 – [0 65,535]

*Logical – [0 1]

*Simple casting: double(), uint8().

*Useful when displaying images with a dynamic range not corresponding to its actual type.

*Conversion: im2double(),im2uint8(),lab2double(),lab2uint8()

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Max difference between images: 1

I = imread('world.jpg');I2 = I-1.4;diffI = I-I2;fprintf('Max difference between images: %d\n',max(diffI(:)));figure(1);subplot(1,2,1);imshow(I); title('I');subplot(1,2,2);imshow(I2); title('I2');

*Common problem

Max difference between images: 1.4

I = double(imread('world.jpg'));I2 = I-1.4;diffI = I-I2;fprintf('Max difference between images: %2.1f\n',max(diffI(:)));figure(1);subplot(1,2,1);imshow(I); title('I');subplot(1,2,2);imshow(I2); title('I2');

*Common problem

I I2

*Image Representation

2D Matrix

*Intensity: Each pixel value in the dynamic range [minP, maxP].

*Can represent a grayscale image, results of a 2d function, fuzzy ground truth, etc.

*Useful commands: imagesc(), axis, colormap().

*Binary: a.k.a masks.

*Can represent absolute ground truth, etc.

*Useful commands: bwlabel(),bwmorph(),bwdist(),im2bw(),bwperim().

*Image Representation

2D Matrix

*Indexed: Each pixel value in the range [minP, maxP].

*Can represent segmentation.

*Useful commands: regionprops(),label2rgb()

*Image Representation

3D Matrix

*True Color: Three 2D matrices stacked. Each represents a color component. (e.g. RGB)

*Can represent an RGB color image,LAB image, etc.

*Useful commands: imshow(),rgb2gray(),rgb2ind().

*Image/Video I/O

Useful Commands*imread() – read image

*imwrite() – write image

*im2fram() – convert image to movie frame

*movie2avi() – write avi file

*aviread() – read avi file

*mmreader()/VideoReader() – read video (better)

*movie() – show movie

*Matrix access

Useful Commands:*sub2ind()– convert subscript (e.g. (r,c,clr)) to index (n).

*Ind2sub() – convert index (n) to subscipt (e.g. (r,c,clr)).

*meshgrid() – generate X,Y grids.

*Image Manipulation

Useful Commands:*imcrop()– Useful for interactive cropping.

*imrotate()– Rotate image.

*imfilter() – Use kernal to convolve/correlation.

*nlfilter() – Sliding neighborhood operation.

*blkproc() – Perform function on (semi-)destinct blocks.

*fspecial() – Create common image filter kernals.

*imresize() – Resize image using defined interpolation.

*kron() – Kronecker tensor product

*padarray() – Pad image.

*colfilt() – Colum-stack filtering (faster)

*imfreehand()- Select region with mouse

*MEX - MATLAB Executable

*Dynamically linked subroutines produced from C, C++ or Fortran source code.

*Useful when dealing with non efficient-Matlab algorithms (e.g. iterative algorithm implemented as loops).

*mex –setup : Setup mex compiling configurations.

*Data Visualization

Useful Commands:

*scatter() – Useful to plot points on image.

*Imagesc() – Useful for 2D data.

*print() – Save figure as image on disk (careful with lossy compressions)

*General Tips

*Avoid loops

*Manage memory (Clear unused variables)

*Useful command: clearvars()

*Avoid memory duplication – use nested functionsfunction myfunA = magic(500);

function setrowval(row, value) A(row,:) = value; end

setrowval(400, 0);disp('The new value of A(399:401,1:10) is')A(399:401,1:10)end

*General Tips

Long-Term Usage (Windows Systems Only)

On 32-bit Microsoft Windows, the workspace of MATLAB can fragment over time due to the fact that the Windows memory manager does not return blocks of certain types and sizes to the operating system. Clearing the MATLAB workspace does not fix this problem. You can minimize the problem by allocating the largest variables first. This cannot address, however, the eventual fragmentation of the workspace that occurs from continual use of MATLAB over many days and weeks, for example. The only solution to this is to save your work and restart MATLAB.The pack command, which saves all variables to disk and loads them back, does not help with this situation.

*Tricks

Original Result

Stenography (Wikipedia) The art of hiding a message within another larger message

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*Tricks

Stenography (Wikipedia) The art of hiding a message within another larger message

I= imread('StenographyOriginal.png');I4=85*mod(I,4);figure;subplot(1,2,1)imshow(I); title('Original');subplot(1,2,2)imshow(I4);title('Result');

*Tricks

Almost Connected (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

*Tricks

Almost Connected (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

url = 'http://blogs.mathworks.com/images/steve/2010/blobs_in_clumps.png';bw = imread(url);lbl = bwlabel(bw);figure; imagesc(lbl); axis image;

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Almost Connected (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

bw2 = bwdist(bw) <= 12.5;lbl2 = bwlabel(bw2);figure; imshow(bw2);figure; imagesc(lbl2); axis image;

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Almost Connected (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

lbl3 = lbl2.*bw;figure;imagesc(lbl3); axis image;

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*Tricks

Feature AND (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

bw = imread('text.png');dots = rand(size(bw))>0.99;

*Tricks

Feature AND (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

touching_pixels = bw & dots;

Overlapping

*Tricks

Feature AND (Steve Eddins’ Blog)

out = imreconstruct(touching_pixels, bw);

Reconstructed