MATLAB: Imshow and Imshowpair differences

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Good Afternnon Eveyone!
As a way to keep busy I have been teaching myself how to perform edge detection and code them up myself. When attemtpting to hardcode my own Canny detector, I have run into a problem where imshowpair and imshow display different intensity values across the same pixel of the same displayed image input. I have messed with the scaling operator and set it to 'none' but the issue still persists? Any tips on why this is the case?
I have attached my script below, be wary it is a bit long and convuluted but the final step should be where the imshow and imshowpair issue come in.
q = imread('circuit.tif');
%% STEP1: Apply Gaussian Filter
q_output1 = imgaussfilt(q,1.5);
%JUST FOR FUN, I AM PERFORMING BOTH PREWITT AND SOBEL TO PERFORM THE CANNY
Canny_Prewitt_KernalX = [-1 0 1;-1 0 1;-1 0 1];
Canny_Prewitt_KernalY = Canny_Prewitt_KernalX';
Canny_Sobel_KernalX = [-1 0 1;-2 0 2;-1 0 1];
Canny_Sobel_KernalY = -Canny_Sobel_KernalX';
% STEP2: GRADIENT CALCULATION
Canny_Prewitt_FiltX = filter2(Canny_Prewitt_KernalX,q_output1,'same'); % Gx

Canny_Prewitt_FiltY = filter2(Canny_Prewitt_KernalY,q_output1,'same'); % Gy

Canny_Prewitt_Edge = sqrt(Canny_Prewitt_FiltX.^2 + Canny_Prewitt_FiltY.^2); % V - Gradient Intensity Matrix

Canny_Sobel_FiltX = filter2(Canny_Sobel_KernalX,q_output1,'same'); % Gx
Canny_Sobel_FiltY = filter2(Canny_Sobel_KernalY,q_output1,'same'); % Gy
Canny_Sobel_Edge = sqrt(Canny_Sobel_FiltX.^2 + Canny_Sobel_FiltY.^2); % V - Gradient Intensity Matrix
Canny_Prewitt_Theta = atan2(Canny_Prewitt_FiltY,Canny_Prewitt_FiltX).*(180/pi); % Theta

Canny_Sobel_Theta = atan2(Canny_Sobel_FiltY,Canny_Sobel_FiltX).*(180/pi); % Theta
% The theta areas contain NaN values so lets replace them with 0.
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(isnan(Canny_Prewitt_Theta)) = 0;
Canny_Sobel_Theta(isnan(Canny_Sobel_Theta)) = 0;
% To correct for same angles in the negative just add 360 to any value less than 0
rows = size(Canny_Prewitt_Theta,1);
columns = size(Canny_Sobel_Theta,2);
for i = 1:rows % THIS FOR LOOP TURNS -ANGLES TO A RANGE OF 0-180!
for j = 1:columns
if Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) < 0
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) = Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) + 180;
elseif Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) < 0
Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) = Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) +180;
elseif Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) < 0 && Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) < 0
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) = Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) + 180;
Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) = Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) +180;
end
end
end
Canny_BW_Prewitt_Edge = imbinarize(Canny_Prewitt_Edge/255,0.3);
Canny_BW_Sobel_Edge = imbinarize(Canny_Sobel_Edge/255,0.3);
% STEP3: NON-MAXIMUM SUPRESSION
rows = size(Canny_Prewitt_Theta,1);
columns = size(Canny_Sobel_Theta,2);
% THESE FOR LOOPS FORM THE LOGIC FOR THE IMAGE NON-MAX SUPRESSION TEST
for i = 2:rows-1
for j = 2:columns-1
Prewitt_Result = [1 2 3 4 5].*...
[Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) < 22.5,...
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) >= 22.5 && Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) < 67.5,...
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) >= 67.5 && Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) < 112.5,...
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) >= 112.5 && Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) < 157.5,...
Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) >= 157.5 && Canny_Prewitt_Theta(i,j) <= 180];
switch Prewitt_Result(Prewitt_Result~=0)
case 1
if Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j-1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j+1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 2
if Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i-1,j+1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i+1,j-1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 3
if Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i-1,j) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i+1,j) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 4
if Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i-1,j-1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i+1,j+1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 5
if Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j-1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j+1) > Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
end
Sobel_Result = [1 2 3 4 5].*...
[Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) < 22.5,...
Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) >= 22.5 && Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) < 67.5,...
Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) >= 67.5 && Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) < 112.5,...
Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) >= 112.5 && Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) < 157.5,...
Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) >= 157.5 && Canny_Sobel_Theta(i,j) <= 180];
switch Sobel_Result(Sobel_Result~=0)
case 1
if Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j-1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j+1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 2
if Canny_Sobel_Edge(i-1,j+1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Sobel_Edge(i+1,j-1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 3
if Canny_Sobel_Edge(i-1,j) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Sobel_Edge(i+1,j) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 4
if Canny_Sobel_Edge(i-1,j-1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Sobel_Edge(i+1,j+1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
case 5
if Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j-1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
elseif Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j+1) > Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j)
Canny_Sobel_Edge(i,j) = 0;
end
end
end
end
% Image borders cannot be traversed by the FOR Loop, so set to 0!
% WARNING!! THIS CAUSES SOME ISSUES CHECK AGAIN AFTER FINISHING
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(1,:) = 0;
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(max(rows),:) = 0;
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(:,1) = 0;
Canny_Prewitt_Edge(:,max(columns)) = 0;
Canny_Sobel_Edge(1,:) = 0;
Canny_Sobel_Edge(max(rows),:) = 0;
Canny_Sobel_Edge(:,1) = 0;
Canny_Sobel_Edge(:,max(columns)) = 0;
figure(34)
imshowpair(Canny_Prewitt_Edge,Canny_Sobel_Edge,'montage','Scaling','none');title('Non-Max Suppression');
figure(35)
subplot(121),imshow(Canny_Prewitt_Edge,colormap('gray'));shtitle('Non-Max Suppression');title('Canny using Prewitt');
subplot(122),imshow(Canny_Sobel_Edge,colormap('gray'));title('Canny using Sobel');

Best Answer

You can tell imshow() what values to map to zero and what to map to 255 via the input arguments.
imshow(grayImage, [40, 200]); % 40 will be black (0) and 200 will be white (255)
Plus you can stitch together images like
wideImage = [image1, image2];
which is essentially what showpair() does. Then you can use imshow() like above.
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