I'm trying to apply a sliding window minimum and maximum filter to an image of a certain window size. Actually, I'm trying to find the optimum window size for it. But I really haven't gotten the hang of it. I presume that I should be using blockproc to implement the sliding window, but not really sure how to find the maximum and minimum filter. As to the implementation itself, should I use loops to slide the window across the entire area of the image ?
MATLAB: Sliding window minimum and maximum filter
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Convert to grayscale and then threshold and find the bounding box
clc; % Clear the command window.
close all; % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
imtool close all; % Close all imtool figures.
clear; % Erase all existing variables. Or clearvars if you want.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
format long g;format compact;fontSize = 20;% Read in the color image.
folder = pwd;baseFileName = 'm2.bmp';% Get the full filename, with path prepended.
fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName);if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % Didn't find it there. Check the search path for it.
fullFileName = baseFileName; % No path this time.
if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % Still didn't find it. Alert user.
errorMessage = sprintf('Error: %s does not exist.', fullFileName); uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage)); return; endendrgbImage = imread(fullFileName);% Get the dimensions of the image. numberOfColorBands should be = 3.
[rows, columns, numberOfColorBands] = size(rgbImage);% Display the original color image.
subplot(2, 3, 1);imshow(rgbImage, []);axis on;title('Original Color Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);drawnow;% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);% Histogram the red channel, but there is a huge spike at 255 so let's not count those.
subplot(2, 3, 2);grayImage = rgb2gray(rgbImage);imshow(grayImage, []);title('Gray Scale version', 'FontSize', fontSize);subplot(2, 3, 3);histogram(grayImage(grayImage<255))grid on;title('Histogram of Gray Scale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);someThresholdValue = 150;binaryImage = grayImage > someThresholdValue;% Take largest blob
binaryImage = bwareafilt(binaryImage, 1);subplot(2, 3, 4);imshow(binaryImage);grid on;title('Binary Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);% Label the binary image.
labeledImage = bwlabel(binaryImage);props = regionprops(labeledImage, 'BoundingBox');bbox = props.BoundingBoxcroppedImageRGB = imcrop(rgbImage, bbox);subplot(2, 3, 5);imshow(croppedImageRGB);grid on;title('Cropped RGB Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);% Gray scale version of cropped image
croppedImageGray = imcrop(grayImage, bbox);subplot(2, 3, 6);imshow(croppedImageGray);grid on;title('Cropped Gray Scale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
It's just 3 lines. Just mask the original image:
binaryImage = grayImage > 150;maskedImage = zeros(size(grayImage)); % Initialize.
maskedImage(binaryImage) = grayImage(binaryImage);See the full demo below:
% Demo by ImageAnalyst
clc; % Clear the command window.
close all; % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
clear; % Erase all existing variables.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
fontSize = 14;% Read in a standard MATLAB gray scale demo image.
folder = fullfile(matlabroot, '\toolbox\images\imdemos');baseFileName = 'coins.png';% Get the full filename, with path prepended.
fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName);% Check if file exists.
if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % File doesn't exist -- didn't find it there. Check the search path for it.
fullFileName = baseFileName; % No path this time.
if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % Still didn't find it. Alert user.
errorMessage = sprintf('Error: %s does not exist in the search path folders.', fullFileName); uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage)); return; endendgrayImage = imread(fullFileName);% Get the dimensions of the image.
% numberOfColorBands should be = 1.
[rows columns numberOfColorBands] = size(grayImage);% Display the original gray scale image.
subplot(2, 2, 1);imshow(grayImage, []);title('Original Grayscale Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);% Give a name to the title bar.
set(gcf,'name','Demo by ImageAnalyst','numbertitle','off') % Let's compute and display the histogram.
[pixelCount grayLevels] = imhist(grayImage);subplot(2, 2, 2); bar(pixelCount);grid on;title('Histogram of original image', 'FontSize', fontSize);xlim([0 grayLevels(end)]); % Scale x axis manually.
yl = ylim();line([150 150], [0 yl(2)], 'Color', 'r');% Threshold at 150
binaryImage = grayImage > 150;% Display the original gray scale image.subplot(2, 2, 3);imshow(binaryImage, []);title('Binary Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);% Mask the image
maskedImage = zeros(size(grayImage)); % Initialize.% Assign values from grayImage that are > 150.
maskedImage(binaryImage) = grayImage(binaryImage);% Display the original gray scale image.subplot(2, 2, 4);imshow(maskedImage, []);title('Masked Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
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