bwlabel on enhanced image results in black image - matlab

I tried to enhance an image and perform connected component analysis but it returns a black image.
My code is
I = imread('Sub.png');
I=rgb2gray(I);
imshow(I)
J = adapthisteq(I);
imshow(J)
figure, imhist(J,64)
% I = contrast(I);
L = bwlabel(J);
figure,imshow(label2rgb(L,'jet','k','shuffle'));
Also how to number each blob after bwlabel

I think that is only a matter of scaling the intensity of J when you call bwlabel, since the image is of type uint8. Its maximal possible value is thus 255.
Using this line instead:
L = bwlabel(J/255);
Outputs the following:
Yay!

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Wrong output for 2d convolution function

As the title says, the output I’m getting out of this function is incorrect. By incorrect I mean that the data are overflowing. How do I normalise the matrix correctly? Currently almost all of the pictures I get are white.
I called the function from another MATLAB file like this:
mask = [3,10,3;0,0,0;-3,-10,-3];
A = imread(“football.jpg”);
B = ConvFun(A,mask);
function [ image ] = ConvFun( img,matrix )
[rows,cols] = size(img); %// Change
%// New - Create a padded matrix that is the same class as the input
new_img = zeros(rows+2,cols+2);
new_img = cast(new_img, class(img));
%// New - Place original image in padded result
new_img(2:end-1,2:end-1) = img;
%// Also create new output image the same size as the padded result
image = zeros(size(new_img));
image = cast(image, class(img));
for i=2:1:rows+1 %// Change
for j=2:1:cols+1 %// Change
value=0;
for g=-1:1:1
for l=-1:1:1
value=value+new_img(i+g,j+l)*matrix(g+2,l+2); %// Change
end
end
image(i,j)=value;
end
end
%// Change
%// Crop the image and remove the extra border pixels
image = image(2:end-1,2:end-1);
imshow(image)
end
In a convolution, if you want the pixel value to stay in the same range
, you need to make the mask add up to 1. Just divide the mask by sum(mask(:)) after defining it. This is however, not the case you are dealing with.
Sometimes that is not the needed. For example if you are doing edge detection (like the kernel you show), you don't really care about maintaining the pixel values. In those cases, the plotting of unnormalized images is more the problem. You can always set the imshow function to auto select display range: imshow(image,[]).
Also, I hope this is homework, as this is the absolutely worst way to code convolution. FFT based convolution is about 100 times faster generally, and MATLAB has an inbuilt for it.

How can I traverse through pixels?

Suppose, I have the following image in my hand.
I have marked some pixels of the image as follows,
Now, I have obtained the pixel mask,
How can I traverse through only those pixels that are in that mask?
Given a binary mask, mask, where you want to iterate over all the true pixels in mask, you have at least two options that are both better than the double for loop example.
1) Logical indexing.
I(mask) = 255;
2) Use find.
linearIdx = find(mask);
I(linearIdx) = 255;
The original question:
How can I save only those pixels which I am interested in?
...
Question: Now, in the Step#2, I want to save those pixels in a data-structure (or, whatever) d so that I can apply another function f2(I, d, p,q,r) which does something on that image on the basis of those pixels d.
Create a binary mask
Try using a logical mask of the image to keep track of the pixels of interest.
I'll make up a random image for example here:
randImg = rand(64,64,3);
imgMask = false(size(randImg(:,:,1)));
imgMask(:,[1:4:end]) = true; % take every four columns This would be your d.
% Show what we are talking about
maskImg = zeros(size(randImg));
imgMaskForRGB = repmat(imgMask,1,1,3);
maskImg(imgMaskForRGB) = randImg(imgMaskForRGB);
figure('name','Psychadelic');
subplot(2,1,1);
imagesc(randImg);
title('Random image');
subplot(2,1,2);
imagesc(maskImg);
title('Masked pixels of interest');
Here's what it looks like:
It will be up to you to determine how to store and use the image mask (d in your case) as I am not sure how your functions are written. Hopefully this example will give you an understanding of how it can be done though.
EDIT
You added a second question since I posted:
But, now the problem is, how am I going to traverse through those pixels in K?
Vectrorization
To set all pixels to white:
randImg(imgMaskForRGB) = 255;
In my example, I accessed all of the pixels of interest at the same time with my mask in a vectorized fashion.
I translated my 2D mask into a 3D mask, in order to grab the RGB values of each pixel. That was this code:
maskImg = zeros(size(randImg));
imgMaskForRGB = repmat(imgMask,1,1,3);
Then to access all of these pixels in the image of interest, I used this call:
randImg(imgMaskForRGB)
These are your pixels of interest. If you want to divide these values in 1/2 you could do something like this:
randImg(imgMaskForRGB) = randImg(imgMaskForRGB)/2;
Loops
If you really want to traverse, one pixel at a time, you can always use a double for loop:
for r=1:size(randImg,1)
for c=1:size(randImg,2)
if(imgMask(r,c)) % traverse all the pixels
curPixel = randImg(r,c,:); % grab the ones that are flagged
end
end
end
Okay. I have solved this using the answer of #informaton,
I = imread('gray_bear.png');
J = rgb2gray(imread('marked_bear.png'));
mask = I-J;
for r=1:size(I,1)
for c=1:size(I,2)
if(mask(r,c))
I(r,c) = 255;
end
end
end
imshow(I);

Negative values in Watershed algorithm leading to black image

I'm using the watershed algorithm to try and segment touching nuclei. A typical image may look like:
or this:
I'm trying to apply the watershed algorithm with this code:
show(RGB_img)
%Convert to grayscale image
I = rgb2gray(RGB_img);
%Take structuring element of a disk of size 10, for the morphological transformations
%Attempt to subtract the background from the image: top hat is the
%subtraction of the open image from the original
%Morphological transformation to subtract background noise from the image
%Tophat is the subtraction of an opened image from the original. Remove all
%images smaller than the structuring element of 10
I1 = imtophat(I, strel('disk', 10));
%Increases contrast
I2 = imadjust(I1);
%show(I2,'contrast')
%Assume we have background and foreground and assess thresh as such
level = graythresh(I2);
%Convert to binary image based on graythreshold
BW = im2bw(I2,level);
show(BW,'C');
BW = bwareaopen(BW,8);
show(BW,'C2');
BW = bwdist(BW) <= 1;
show(BW,'joined');
%Complement because we want image to be black and background white
C = ~BW;
%Use distance tranform to find nearest nonzero values from every pixel
D = -bwdist(C);
%Assign Minus infinity values to the values of C inside of the D image
% Modify the image so that the background pixels and the extended maxima
% pixels are forced to be the only local minima in the image (So you could
% hypothetically fill in water on the image
D(C) = -Inf;
%Gets 0 for all watershed lines and integers for each object (basins)
L = watershed(D);
show(L,'L');
%Takes the labels and converts to an RGB (Using hot colormap)
fin = label2rgb(L,'hot','w');
% show(fin,'fin');
im = I;
%Superimpose ridgelines,L has all of them as 0 -> so mark these as 0(black)
im(L==0)=0;
clean_img = L;
show(clean_img)
After C = ~BW; the whole image goes dark. I believe this is because the image pixels are all -inf or some smaller negative number. This is there a way around this and if so what could I change in my code to get this algorithm working? I've experimented a ton and I don't really know what's happening. Any help would be great!
The problem is with your show command. As you said in the comments this uses imshow under the hood. If you try imshow directly you'll see you also get a black image. However, if you call it with appropriate limits:
imshow(clean_img,[min(clean_img(:)), max(clean_img(:))])
you'll see everything you expect to see.
In general I usually prefer imagesc for that reason. imshow makes arbitrary judgements as to what range to represent, and I usually can't be bothered to keep up with it. I think in your case, your end image is uint16 so imshow chooses to represent the range [1, 65025]. Since all your pixel values are below 400, they look black to the naked eye for that range.

what is the right way to compute the measures for images with different color properties

I need a little help guys in Matlab in Matrix Dimensions,
I Have two images imported by imread function:
im1 = imread('1.jpg');
im2 = imread('2.jpg');
im1 is the reference image, while im2 is the Noisy image.
In the workspace window, Matlab shows the im2 Dimensions like this: 768x1024x3
while im2 displayed as: 768x1024
They are both RGB, there's no greyscale images,
In fact the second image is the a compressed image (performed compression algorithm on it ) while the first image is natural JPEG Image, untouched
and for calculating MSE/PNSR for both images, the matrix dimensions must be the same.
I Will need to transform im1 dimensions to be 3d like the first image (768x1024)
I tried this functions (squeeze, reshape) and with no success
You were on the right track with repmat. Here's the correct syntax:
im2 = repmat(im2, [1 1 3]);
This says you want 1 replicate along the first dimension, 1 replicate along the second dimension, and 3 replicates along the third dimension.
Are you sure that both are RGB images because im2 has only one channel and it looks grayscale but it can also be a colormap image in that case try
[im2, map] = imread('im2.jpg');
and see if anything is appearing in map variable. If the image is indeed colormap image, the map variable should be of size 256 X 3.
What donda has suggested is repeating the grayscale channel 3 times to make it of size 768x1024x3. Another possibility is that noisy image was created by converting RGB image to grayscale or by taking green channel of RGB image. Verify the source of the image in that case.
About PSNR computation I have a feeling that there is some problem with your code. I have given my code below use this and see if it works. Get back to me if you face any problem.
function [Psnr_DB] = psnr(I,I_out)
I = double(I);
I_out = double(I_out);
total_error = 0;
for iterz = 1:size(I,3)
for iterx = 1:size(I,1)
for itery = 1:size(I,2)
total_error = total_error + (I(iterx,itery,iterz)-I_out(iterx,itery,iterz))^2;
end
end
end
MSE = total_error/numel(I);
Psnr = (255^2)/MSE;
Psnr_DB = 10*log10(Psnr) %#ok<NOPRT>

Split up a binary image using their white boundaries in MATLAB

I'm trying to read the values in this image into variables using OCR in MATLAB. I'm having trouble doing so, so I tried to split up this image into smaller parts using the white boundary lines then trying to read it, but I dont know how to do this. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
If the blocks are always delimited by a completely vertical line, you can find where they are by comparing the original image (here transformed from RGB to grayscale to be a single plane) to a matrix that is made of repeats of the first row of the original image only. Since the lines are vertical the intensity of the pixels in the first line will be the same throughout. This generates a binary mask that can be used in conjunction with a quick thresholding to reject those lines that are all black pixels in every row. Then invert this mask and use regionprops to locate the bounding box of each region. Then you can pull these out and do what you like.
If the lines dividing the blocks of text are not always vertical or constant intensity throughout then there's a bit more work that needs to be done to locate the dividing lines, but nothing that's impossible. Some example data would be good to have in that case, though.
img = imread('http://puu.sh/cU3Nj/b020b60f0b.png');
imshow(img);
imgGray = rgb2gray(img);
imgMatch = imgGray == repmat(imgGray(1,:), size(imgGray, 1), 1);
whiteLines = imgMatch & (imgGray > 0);
boxes = regionprops(~whiteLines, 'BoundingBox');
for k = 1:6
subplot(3,2,k)
boxHere = round(boxes(k).BoundingBox);
imshow(img(boxHere(2):(boxHere(2)+boxHere(4)-1), boxHere(1):(boxHere(1)+boxHere(3)-1), :));
end
You can sum along the columns of a binary image corresponding to that input image and find peaks from the sum values. This is precisely achieved in the code here -
img = imread('http://puu.sh/cU3Nj/b020b60f0b.png');
BW = im2bw(img,0.1); %// convert to a binary image with a low threshold
peak_sum_max = 30; %// max of sum of cols to act as threshold to decide as peak
peaks_min_width = 10; %// min distance between peaks i.e. min width of each part
idx = find( sum(BW,1)>=peak_sum_max );
split_idx = [1 idx( [true diff(idx)>peaks_min_width ] )];
split_imgs = arrayfun(#(x) img(:,split_idx(x):split_idx(x+1)),...
1:numel(split_idx)-1,'Uni',0);
%// Display split images
for iter = 1:numel(split_imgs)
figure,imshow(split_imgs{iter})
end
Please note that the final output split_imgs is a cell array with each cell holding image data for each split image.
If you would like to have the split images directly without the need for messing with cell arrays, after you have split_idx, you can do this -
%// Get and display split images
for iter = 1:numel(split_idx)-1
split_img = img(:,split_idx(iter):split_idx(iter+1));
figure,imshow(split_img)
end
There is now a built-in ocr function in the Computer Vision System Toolbox.