Find position of vector in matrix [duplicate] - matlab

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I have the vector:
1 2 3
and the matrix:
4 1 2 3 5 5
9 8 7 6 3 1
1 4 7 8 2 3
I am trying to find a simple way of locating the vector [1 2 3] in my matrix.
A function returning either coordinates (Ie: (1,2:4)) or a matrix of 1s where there is a match a 0s where there isn't, Ie:
0 1 1 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
So far, the only function I've found is is 'ismember', which however only tells me if the individual components of the vector appear in the matrix. Suggestions?

Answer 1

Use strfind with a linearized version of the matrix, and then convert linear indices to subindices. Care should be taken to remove matches of the vector spanning different rows.
mat = [1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2;
3 0 1 2 3 5 4 4]; %// data
vec = [1 2 3]; %// data
ind = strfind(reshape(mat.',[],1).', vec);
[col row] = ind2sub(fliplr(size(mat)), ind);
keep = col<=size(mat,2)-length(vec)+1; %// remove result split across rows
row = row(keep);
col = col(keep);
Result for this example:
>> row, col
row =
1 1 2
col =
1 4 3
meaning the vector appears three times: row 1, col 1; row 1, col 4; row 2, col 3.
The result can be expressed in zero-one form as follows:
result = zeros(fliplr(size(mat)));
ind_ones = bsxfun(#plus, ind(keep).', 0:numel(vec)-1);
result(ind_ones) = 1;
result = result.';
which gives
>> result
result =
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0

Answer 2

One way to get the starting location of the vector in the matrix is using colfilt:
>> A = [1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2; ...
3 0 1 2 3 5 4 4]; % matrix from Luis Mendo
>> T = [1 2 3];
>> colFun = #(x,t) all(x==repmat(t,1,size(x,2)),1);
>> B = colfilt(A,size(T),'sliding',colFun,T(:))
B =
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
That gives a mask of the center points, which translate to (row,col) coordinates:
>> [ii,jj]=find(B);
>> locs = bsxfun(#minus,[ii jj],floor((size(T)-1)/2))
locs =
1 1
2 3
1 4