how save the result of imagesc and getframe in Matlab? - image

I'm wondering how can I save or read all the frames of the image as a image. I wrote the following code, but the result from the movie_frame(fr) is a structure while I need a image with all frames as I need it for doing block matching between different frames of the image.
Thank you very much.
I tried imwrite() which is not working, because Movie_Frames(fr) type was struct. Movie_Frames is giving me a cdata which is different with the size of the image.
clc
clear
close all
load im_sim
load info
for fr =1:size(im_sim,3);
clf;imagesc(info.x,info.y,im_sim(:,:,fr)),colormap gray, axis image,
hold on; title(num2str(fr));
pause(0.05);
Movie_Frames(fr) = getframe;
end

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In the following code, TiffName refers to the name of your multi-tiff file.
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I have a image and some contours as bellow figure. I want to save the output into image (png or jpg). The saved image only contains the image region without the matlab window. Let see my example in the figure. Could you have me implement it by matlab? This is my code to make output figure
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Use the getframe and cdata idiom. If the figure is open, simply do this:
f = getframe;
im = f.cdata;
im will contain the image that was contained inside your frame as a RGB image. Running your code in your post, then the above code, then doing imshow(im), we get:
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imwrite(im, 'coins_final.png');
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Matlab central link: http://www.mathworks.in/matlabcentral/answers/25026-saving-grayscale-image-as-it-appears-in-jet-colormap-of-imagesc
there accepted answer link is : http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7943
I have tried many times, this will show colormaped images in plots (imshow) they didnt write anywhere with colormaped. Now i want to write my image with colormaped.
example code:
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When you use imshow the colormap is always adjusted to the range of values in your image. imwrite however assumes your image has a value range of [0,1] if you are using single or double data types. Try to scale your image to the range [0,1] before saving.
If you provide a colormap in the call to imwrite, MATLAB assumes you are using an indexed image. Thus you will have to convert the image to the indexed format first. The following snippet worked for a test image I of mine:
% scale to [0,1]
I = I - min(I(:));
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Solution by hbaderts worked well for me, but later I found out that some images were still scaled slightly different way from imshow.
However, I might found a reason of an original problem. Just after Matlab starts, its default colormaps (including 'jet') are set to 64 colors (64x3). Then, if any image is shown with a colormap, for example if imshow('cameraman.tif'), colormap('jet') is executed, all default colormaps become 256x3 (can be verified with jetMap=jet; before and after). Then it might happen that an image was written with a colormap different from the one applied to image figure (for example, if a figure called after imwrite).
Finally I found this solution (no image pre-scaling needed):
% Create indexed image, explicitly using 256 colors
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% Convert indexed image to RGB using 256-colors jet map
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The images I used have the same color scale now, both the saved one and the one shown in figure.

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I am writing a function that generates series of images. I am using the imwrite function to write each image to a file:
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Adding to what user3817401 has written.
Completly white images can result from data not being scaled prior to being sent to imwrite. Consider following:
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promply before imwrite. This will guarantee, that the image is in range 0-1 and should solve the problem.
The function imagesc returns a handle (you store it as Q), not scaled image data. Then, the function imwrite is interpreting Q as an image. Because it is a handle, it is just 1x1 and it's value is not meaningful as an image. Try scaling Ecc as desired and then writing that instead.

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I use the below command to display the image
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and
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Hope this adjustment solved your problem
First convert the image to rgb using
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then again convert the image into an gray image using
img2=rgb2gray(img1);
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