According to the doc, Tick mark labels, specified as a cell array of character vectors, a string array, a numeric array, a character vector, or a categorical array. By default, the colorbar labels the tick marks with numeric values. If you specify labels and do not specify enough labels for all the tick marks, then MATLABĀ® cycles through the labels. Below is one workaround
close all; clc;
indexedImage = imread('cameraman.tif');
indexedImage = 2 * mat2gray(indexedImage);
imshow(indexedImage);
limColorBar = 2.0;
colormap('hot');
caxis([0,limColorBar])
hcolorBar = colorbar();
hcolorBar.LimitsMode = 'manual';
hcolorBar.Limits = [0,limColorBar];
temp = hcolorBar.TickLabels;
hcolorBar.Ticks = [str2double(temp(1)) str2double(temp(2)) str2double(temp(3)) str2double(temp(4)) str2double(temp(5))];
hcolorBar.TickLabels = round((1/17)*hcolorBar.Ticks,2);
Another workaround
close all; clc;
indexedImage = imread('cameraman.tif');
indexedImage = 2 * mat2gray(indexedImage);
imshow(indexedImage);
limColorBar = 2;
colormap('hot');
caxis([0,limColorBar])
hcolorBar = colorbar();
hcolorBar.LimitsMode = 'manual';
hcolorBar.Limits = [0,limColorBar];
hcolorBar.Ticks = linspace(0,limColorBar,5);
hcolorBar.TickLabels = round((1/17)*hcolorBar.Ticks,2);
xlabel(hcolorBar, 'mm/min') ;
Hope this helps!
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