I want a matlab figure which contains no unnecessary white space outside of the borders of the figure. I have tried different things. For example
set(gca,'LooseInset',get(gca,'TightInset'))
But this removes the z-axis label. The user-made function "spaceplots" I am also unable to get to work (it returns nothing). The method described by MathWorks (https://se.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/save-figure-with-minimal-white-space.html) also does not work.
So how can this be done?
You can do the following:
% creat some 3D plot:
x = 1:0.1:10;
y = x;
[X,Y] = meshgrid(x,y);
f = #(x,y) sin(x).*cos(y);
Z = f(X,Y);
surf(X,Y,Z)
xlabel('Xsomething')
ylabel('Ysomething')
zlabel('Zsomething')
%%% here it starts: %%%
ax = gca;
post = findall(ax,'Type','Text'); % get all text handles
p = zeros(numel(post),2);
% collect all the position vectors:
for k = 1:numel(post)
post(k).Units = 'normalized'; % set units to the normelized figure units
% the 'position' of the text is relative to the axes, so we convert it
% to the figure units:
p(k,:) = post(k).Position(1:2)+ax.Position(1:2);
end
% find the most left and bottom items,
% and move them to the borders of the figure:
ax.Position(1:2) = min(p);
% fill the rest of the figure with th axes:
ax.Position(3:4) = 1-ax.Position(1:2);
Before:
After:
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I have a matlab image from a matrix named Two_dim as shown in the figure below.
I would like to remove all 3 of the bottom straight horizontal lines from the image. I looked up on Stackoverflow to use regionprops to eliminate horizontal lines and obtained this code. But that doesn't seem to remove the lines.
rp = regionprops(Two_dim, 'PixelIdxList', 'Eccentricity', 'Orientation');
rp = rp([rp.Eccentricity]>0.95 & (abs([rp.Orientation])<2 | abs([rp.Orientation])>89));
Two_dim(vertcat(rp.PixelIdxList)) = false;
Here is an answer using Hough transform approach. I will add some more explanations to the code below later:
% I crop only the intresting part for illustration:
BW = edge(Two_dim(1:1000,:),'canny');
subplot 131
imagesc(Two_dim(1:1000,:))
title('Original image')
axis xy
[H,theta,rho] = hough(BW); % preform Hough transform
subplot 132
P = houghpeaks(H,10,'NHoodSize',[1 1]); % find the peaks in the transformation
lines_found = houghlines(BW,theta,rho,P,...
'FillGap',50,'MinLength',1); % convert the peaks to line objects
imagesc(Two_dim(1:1000,:)), hold on
result = Two_dim(1:1000,:);
for k = 1:length(lines_found)
% extract one line:
xy = [lines_found(k).point1; lines_found(k).point2];
% Plot the detected lines:
plot(xy(:,1),xy(:,2),'LineWidth',1,'Color','green');
% remove the lines from the image:
% note that I take a buffer of 3 to the 'width' of the line
result(xy(1,2):xy(1,2)+3,xy(1,1):xy(2,1)) = 0;
end
title('Detected lines')
axis xy
subplot 133
imagesc(result)
title('Corrected image')
axis xy
The output:
You could look at the row intensity sums. They will stand out as long as the lines stay horizontal.
grayI = rgb2gray(I);
rowSums = sum(grayI,2);
plot(rowSums);
filterRows = rowSums > 1*10^5
I(filterRows,:,:) = 255;
regionprops needs a binary image with each pixel being one of two values.
You can do e.g.
Two_dim(Two_dim<0.5) = 0;
Two_dim(Two_dim>=0.5) = 1; # the actual value doesn't matter
or
Two_dim = logical(Two_dim);
I have an image with a white background and trying to extract the object within it using MATLAB. I tried different techniques (bounded box) but I am not getting desired results. I have tried this StackOverflow post but it isn't quite working: MATLAB Auto Crop
How I can extract the object? Any idea which technique is suitable?
The image is shown below:
I propose the following workflow:
Binarize the image
Get the centroid and orientation of the main object
Crop the image to set the center of the object at the center of the image
Rotate the object with respect to the center to compensate for the tilt
Crop again to get the object
In practice, step 1 turned out to be rather complicated to perform because of the shadow and of the not-so-well-defined boundaries between the white part of the object and the background. The trick I used relies on the fact that, because of the many details inside the object (and the jpg compression) there is a lot of "noise" all over it. So looking for edges combined with a BW-dilation produced a very decent binarized image. I then used regioprops to filter the small outliers and get the properties of the object.
Here is the code:
% --- Load image
Img = imread('Tilted.jpg');
% --- Binarisation
% Find edges and dilate to get a bloc
BW = edge(mean(Img,3),'sobel');
BW = imdilate(BW, strel('disk',5));
% Get BW image
RP = regionprops(BW, 'Area', 'PixelIdxList', 'Centroid', 'Orientation');
[~, i] = max([RP(:).Area]);
BW = Img(:,:,1)*0;
BW(RP(i).PixelIdxList) = 1;
x = RP(i).Centroid(1);
y = RP(i).Centroid(2);
theta = -RP(i).Orientation;
% imshow(BW)
% plot(x+[0 500*cos(theta*pi/180)], y+[0 500*sin(theta*pi/180)]);
% return
% --- First crop
w = min(x-1, size(Img,2)-x);
h = min(y-1, size(Img,1)-y);
C = Img(ceil(y-h):floor(y+h), ceil(x-w):floor(x+w),:);
% --- Rotate image
R = imrotate(C, theta);
R(R==0) = 255;
% --- Second crop
% Parameters (to adjust)
th = 70;
margin = 25;
% Remove grey levels
Rwg = std(double(R),0,3).^2;
% Get x-bounds
sx = sum(Rwg,1);
x1 = max(find(sx>prctile(sx,th), 1, 'first')-margin, 1);
x2 = min(find(sx>prctile(sx,30), 1, 'last')+margin, size(Rwg,1));
% Get y-bounds
sy = sum(Rwg,2);
y1 = max(find(sy>prctile(sy,th), 1, 'first')-margin, 1);
y2 = min(find(sy>prctile(sy,th), 1, 'last')+margin, size(Rwg,1));
Res = R(y1:y2, x1:x2, :);
% --- Display
imshow(Res)
Of course, if you have many different images to process this may not work every time. This code is only a starting point and you now have to modify it to meet your precise needs.
Best,
After I did a 'imclearborder', there are still a bit of unwanted object around the barcode. How can I remove those objects to isolate the barcode? I have pasted my code for your reference.
rgb = imread('barcode2.jpg');
% Resize Image
rgb = imresize(rgb,0.33);
figure(),imshow(rgb);
% Convert from RGB to Gray
Igray = double(rgb2gray(rgb));
% Calculate the Gradients
[dIx, dIy] = gradient(Igray);
B = abs(dIx) - abs(dIy);
% Low-Pass Filtering
H = fspecial('gaussian', 20, 10);
C = imfilter(B, H);
C = imclearborder(C);
figure(),imagesc(C);colorbar;
Well, i have already explained it in your previous question How to find the location of red region in an image using MATLAB? , but with a opencv code and output images.
Instead of asking for code, try to implement it yourself.
Below is what to do next.
1) convert image 'C' in your code to binary.
2) Apply some erosion to remove small noises.( this time, barcode region also shrinks)
3) Apply dilation to compensate previous erosion.(most of noise will have removed in previous erosion. So they won't come back)
4) Find contours in the image.
5) Find their area. Most probably, contour which has maximum area will be the barcode, because other things like letters, words etc will be small ( you can understand it in the grayscale image you have provided)
6) Select contour with max. area. Draw a bounding rectangle for it.
Its result is already provided in your previous question. It works very nice. Try to implement it yourself with help of MATLAB documentation. Come here only when you get an error which you don't understand.
%%hi, i am ading my code to yours at the end of your code%%%%
clear all;
rgb = imread('barcode.jpeg');
% Resize Image
rgb = imresize(rgb,0.33);
figure(),imshow(rgb);
% Convert from RGB to Gray
Igray = double(rgb2gray(rgb));
Igrayc = Igray;
% Calculate the Gradients
[dIx, dIy] = gradient(Igray);
B = abs(dIx) - abs(dIy);
% Low-Pass Filtering
H = fspecial('gaussian', 10, 5);
C = imfilter(B, H);
C = imclearborder(C);
imshow(Igray,[]);
figure(),imagesc(C);colorbar;
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%from here my code starts%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
bw = im2bw(C);%%%binarising the image
% imshow(bw);
%%%%if there are letters or any other noise is present around the barcode
%%Note: the size of the noise and letters should be smaller than the
%%barcode size
labelImage = bwlabel(bw,8);
len=0;labe=0;
for i=1:max(max(labelImage))
a = find(labelImage==i);
if(len<length(a))
len=length(a);
labe=i;
end
end
imag = zeros(size(l));
imag(find(labelImage==labe))=255;
% imtool(imag);
%%%if Necessary do errossion
% se2 = strel('line',10,0);
% imag= imerode(imag,se2);
% imag= imerode(imag,se2);
[r c]= find(imag==255);
minr = min(r);
maxc = max(c);
minc = min(c);
maxr = max(r);
imag1 = zeros(size(l));
for i=minr:maxr
for j=minc:maxc
imag1(i,j)=255;
end
end
% figure,imtool(imag1);
varit = find(imag1==0);
Igrayc(varit)=0;
%%%%%result image having only barcode
imshow(Igrayc,[]);
%%%%%original image
figure(),imshow(Igray,[]);
Hope it is useful
I am plotting a 7x7 pixel 'image' in MATLAB, using the imagesc command:
imagesc(conf_matrix, [0 1]);
This represents a confusion matrix, between seven different objects. I have a thumbnail picture of each of the seven objects that I would like to use as the axes tick labels. Is there an easy way to do this?
I don't know an easy way. The axes properties XtickLabel which determines the labels, can only be strings.
If you want a not-so-easy way, you could do something in the spirit of the following non-complete (in the sense of a non-complete solution) code, creating one label:
h = imagesc(rand(7,7));
axh = gca;
figh = gcf;
xticks = get(gca,'xtick');
yticks = get(gca,'ytick');
set(gca,'XTickLabel','');
set(gca,'YTickLabel','');
pos = get(axh,'position'); % position of current axes in parent figure
pic = imread('coins.png');
x = pos(1);
y = pos(2);
dlta = (pos(3)-pos(1)) / length(xticks); % square size in units of parant figure
% create image label
lblAx = axes('parent',figh,'position',[x+dlta/4,y-dlta/2,dlta/2,dlta/2]);
imagesc(pic,'parent',lblAx)
axis(lblAx,'off')
One problem is that the label will have the same colormap of the original image.
#Itmar Katz gives a solution very close to what I want to do, which I've marked as 'accepted'. In the meantime, I made this dirty solution using subplots, which I've given here for completeness. It only works up to a certain size input matrix though, and only displays well when the figure is square.
conf_mat = randn(5);
A = imread('peppers.png');
tick_images = {A, A, A, A, A};
n = length(conf_mat) + 1;
% plotting axis labels at left and top
for i = 1:(n-1)
subplot(n, n, i + 1);
imshow(tick_images{i});
subplot(n, n, i * n + 1);
imshow(tick_images{i});
end
% generating logical array for where the confusion matrix should be
idx = 1:(n*n);
idx(1:n) = 0;
idx(mod(idx, n)==1) = 0;
% plotting the confusion matrix
subplot(n, n, find(idx~=0));
imshow(conf_mat);
axis image
colormap(gray)
I have an image in MATLAB:
im = rgb2gray(imread('some_image.jpg');
% normalize the image to be between 0 and 1
im = im/max(max(im));
And I've done some processing that resulted in a number of points that I want to highlight:
points = some_processing(im);
Where points is a matrix the same size as im with ones in the interesting points.
Now I want to draw a circle on the image in all the places where points is 1.
Is there any function in MATLAB that does this? The best I can come up with is:
[x_p, y_p] = find (points);
[x, y] = meshgrid(1:size(im,1), 1:size(im,2))
r = 5;
circles = zeros(size(im));
for k = 1:length(x_p)
circles = circles + (floor((x - x_p(k)).^2 + (y - y_p(k)).^2) == r);
end
% normalize circles
circles = circles/max(max(circles));
output = im + circles;
imshow(output)
This seems more than somewhat inelegant. Is there a way to draw circles similar to the line function?
You could use the normal PLOT command with a circular marker point:
[x_p,y_p] = find(points);
imshow(im); %# Display your image
hold on; %# Add subsequent plots to the image
plot(y_p,x_p,'o'); %# NOTE: x_p and y_p are switched (see note below)!
hold off; %# Any subsequent plotting will overwrite the image!
You can also adjust these other properties of the plot marker: MarkerEdgeColor, MarkerFaceColor, MarkerSize.
If you then want to save the new image with the markers plotted on it, you can look at this answer I gave to a question about maintaining image dimensions when saving images from figures.
NOTE: When plotting image data with IMSHOW (or IMAGE, etc.), the normal interpretation of rows and columns essentially becomes flipped. Normally the first dimension of data (i.e. rows) is thought of as the data that would lie on the x-axis, and is probably why you use x_p as the first set of values returned by the FIND function. However, IMSHOW displays the first dimension of the image data along the y-axis, so the first value returned by FIND ends up being the y-coordinate value in this case.
This file by Zhenhai Wang from Matlab Central's File Exchange does the trick.
%----------------------------------------------------------------
% H=CIRCLE(CENTER,RADIUS,NOP,STYLE)
% This routine draws a circle with center defined as
% a vector CENTER, radius as a scaler RADIS. NOP is
% the number of points on the circle. As to STYLE,
% use it the same way as you use the rountine PLOT.
% Since the handle of the object is returned, you
% use routine SET to get the best result.
%
% Usage Examples,
%
% circle([1,3],3,1000,':');
% circle([2,4],2,1000,'--');
%
% Zhenhai Wang <zhenhai#ieee.org>
% Version 1.00
% December, 2002
%----------------------------------------------------------------
Funny! There are 6 answers here, none give the obvious solution: the rectangle function.
From the documentation:
Draw a circle by setting the Curvature property to [1 1]. Draw the circle so that it fills the rectangular area between the points (2,4) and (4,6). The Position property defines the smallest rectangle that contains the circle.
pos = [2 4 2 2];
rectangle('Position',pos,'Curvature',[1 1])
axis equal
So in your case:
imshow(im)
hold on
[y, x] = find(points);
for ii=1:length(x)
pos = [x(ii),y(ii)];
pos = [pos-0.5,1,1];
rectangle('position',pos,'curvature',[1 1])
end
As opposed to the accepted answer, these circles will scale with the image, you can zoom in an they will always mark the whole pixel.
Hmm I had to re-switch them in this call:
k = convhull(x,y);
figure;
imshow(image); %# Display your image
hold on; %# Add subsequent plots to the image
plot(x,y,'o'); %# NOTE: x_p and y_p are switched (see note below)!
hold off; %# Any subsequent plotting will overwrite the image!
In reply to the comments:
x and y are created using the following code:
temp_hull = stats_single_object(k).ConvexHull;
for k2 = 1:length(temp_hull)
i = i+1;
[x(i,1)] = temp_hull(k2,1);
[y(i,1)] = temp_hull(k2,2);
end;
it might be that the ConvexHull is the other way around and therefore the plot is different. Or that I made a mistake and it should be
[x(i,1)] = temp_hull(k2,2);
[y(i,1)] = temp_hull(k2,1);
However the documentation is not clear about which colum = x OR y:
Quote: "Each row of the matrix contains the x- and y-coordinates of one vertex of the polygon. "
I read this as x is the first column and y is the second colum.
In newer versions of MATLAB (I have 2013b) the Computer Vision System Toolbox contains the vision.ShapeInserter System object which can be used to draw shapes on images. Here is an example of drawing yellow circles from the documentation:
yellow = uint8([255 255 0]); %// [R G B]; class of yellow must match class of I
shapeInserter = vision.ShapeInserter('Shape','Circles','BorderColor','Custom','CustomBorderColor',yellow);
I = imread('cameraman.tif');
circles = int32([30 30 20; 80 80 25]); %// [x1 y1 radius1;x2 y2 radius2]
RGB = repmat(I,[1,1,3]); %// convert I to an RGB image
J = step(shapeInserter, RGB, circles);
imshow(J);
With MATLAB and Image Processing Toolbox R2012a or newer, you can use the viscircles function to easily overlay circles over an image. Here is an example:
% Plot 5 circles at random locations
X = rand(5,1);
Y = rand(5,1);
% Keep the radius 0.1 for all of them
R = 0.1*ones(5,1);
% Make them blue
viscircles([X,Y],R,'EdgeColor','b');
Also, check out the imfindcircles function which implements the Hough circular transform. The online documentation for both functions (links above) have examples that show how to find circles in an image and how to display the detected circles over the image.
For example:
% Read the image into the workspace and display it.
A = imread('coins.png');
imshow(A)
% Find all the circles with radius r such that 15 ≤ r ≤ 30.
[centers, radii, metric] = imfindcircles(A,[15 30]);
% Retain the five strongest circles according to the metric values.
centersStrong5 = centers(1:5,:);
radiiStrong5 = radii(1:5);
metricStrong5 = metric(1:5);
% Draw the five strongest circle perimeters.
viscircles(centersStrong5, radiiStrong5,'EdgeColor','b');
Here's the method I think you need:
[x_p, y_p] = find (points);
% convert the subscripts to indicies, but transposed into a row vector
a = sub2ind(size(im), x_p, y_p)';
% assign all the values in the image that correspond to the points to a value of zero
im([a]) = 0;
% show the new image
imshow(im)