MATLAB: How to read multiple images into matlab and save them in cells

Question

So I have 10 images at the working directory(which is desktop) and named them as image1.jpg, image2.jpg, … image10.jpg and I want to load into matlab and save them in cells. But apparently it saves the first image, but fails to do the same for the rest.

photo=cell(1,10);
for i=1:10
  filename=['image',num2str(i),'.jpg'];
  photo{i}=imread(filename);
end

and I get errors like:

Error using imread>get_full_filename (line 481) File "image2.jpg" does not exist.

Error in imread (line 344) filename = get_full_filename(fid, errmsg, filename);

Error in Untitled (line 5) photo{i}=imread(filename);

what should I do to make it work?

Answer 1

This is not directly solving your problem, but if you use the following instead, it will either work, or help you better figure out what the problem is:

jpglist = dir('*.jpg'); % Find all jpg files in current directory.
photo=cell(1,length(jpglist));
for i=1:length(jpglist)
  photo{i}=imread(jpglist(i).name);
end