Reading RAW16 images in MATLAB - image

I am trying to read a RAW16 image in MATLAB. After going through another question here on StackOverflow, I figured I could read it like reading a file and then doing some simple matrix transposes. However, I am running into a weird problem. The image below is what I am getting. I do not understand why this overlap exists and am not entirely sure how to solve the issue. Could someone help?
Code:
fin = fopen('raw13.raw','r');
ima = fread(fin, [col*2 row],'uint8');
temp = zeros(col,row);
j=1;
for i=1:2:col*2-1
temp(j,:) = ima(i,:) + ima(i+1,:)*2^8; %The first element is the lower 8bits and the second element is the higher 8bits
j = j+1;
end
imshow(temp',[0 2^16-1])

In case anyone is having the same problem as me.
It seems the .RAW file that I obtained was somehow corrupted. Using a lower version of the FlyCapture program resulted in a better RAW file and the code that I used worked like a charm

I use col*3 in line 3 and line 5, then it displays the image well.
but i use 8 bit raw image form pointgray camera,and i dont know 'imshow(temp',[0 2^16-1])' would work...

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Save a figure to file with specific resolution

In an old version of my code, I used to do a hardcopy() with a given resolution, ie:
frame = hardcopy(figHandle, ['-d' renderer], ['-r' num2str(round(pixelsperinch))]);
For reference, hardcopy saves a figure window to file.
Then I would typically perform:
ZZ = rgb2gray(frame) < 255/2;
se = strel('disk',diskSize);
ZZ2 = imdilate(ZZ,se); %perform dilation.
Surface = bwarea(ZZ2); %get estimated surface (in pixels)
This worked until I switched to Matlab 2017, in which the hardcopy() function is deprecated and we are left with the print() function instead.
I am unable to extract the data from figure handler at a specific resolution using print. I've tried many things, including:
frame = print(figHandle, '-opengl', strcat('-r',num2str(round(pixelsperinch))));
But it doesn't work. How can I overcome this?
EDIT
I don't want to 'save' nor create a figure file, my aim is to extract the data from the figure in order to mesure a surface after a dilation process. I just want to keep this information and since 'im processing a LOT of different trajectories (total is approx. 1e7 trajectories), i don't want to save each file to disk (this is costly, time execution speaking). I'm running this code on a remote server (without a graphic card).
The issue I'm struggling with is: "One or more output arguments not assigned during call to "varargout"."
getframe() does not allow for setting a specific resolution (it uses current resolution instead as far as I know)
EDIT2
Ok, figured out how to do, you need to pass the '-RGBImage' argument like this:
frame = print(figHandle, ['-' renderer], ['-r' num2str(round(pixelsperinch))], '-RGBImage');
it also accept custom resolution and renderer as specified in the documentation.
I think you must specify formattype too (-dtiff in my case). I've tried this in Matlab 2016b with no problem:
print(figHandle,'-dtiff', '-opengl', '-r600', 'nameofmyfig');
EDIT:
If you need the CData just find the handle of the corresponding axes and get its CData
f = findobj('Tag','mytag')
Then depending on your matlab version use:
mycdata = get(f,'CData');
or directly
mycdta = f.CData;
EDIT 2:
You can set the tag of your image programatically and then do what I said previously:
a = imshow('peppers.png');
set(a,'Tag','mytag');

Cutting data appended to a .jpg file and save as mpg file

The background of my problem is that I want to extract the video data of Motion Photos (taken by my Samsung S7). Manually it is easy but time consuming. Just open the .jpg file in a HexEditor and extract all data after the line "MotionPhoto_Data". The first part is the image and the second part is the video.
My current code is
im = 'test.jpg'
with open(im, 'rb') as fin:
data = fin.read()
data_latin = data.decode('latin1')
fin.close()
position = data_latin.find('MotionPhoto_Data')
data_pic = data[:position]
data_mpg = data[position:]
My problem now is that I can´t figure out how to save these strings in a way that data_pic is saved as a working jpg and data_mpg as a working video.
I tried
with open('test_pic.jpg', 'a') as fin:
fin.write(str(data_pic))
fin.close()
But this didn´t worked. I think there is a basic issue on how I try to handle/save my data but I can´t figure out how to fix this.
I assume you use python 3 as it is tagged that way.
You should not decode with 'data.decode('latin1'). It is binary data.
data = fin.read()
Then later write it also as binary data:
with open('test_pic.jpg', 'ab') as fout:
fout.write(data_pic)
fout.close()

Background segmentation from multiple files.jpeg

I am trying to cut off background from currency notes. I used a blobsDemo.m codes I found here, used on coins.jpeg. it worked we quite well for me, on one note.
But when I tried it on multiple images, it returns results on just one note:
For k=1:16
JpegFileName=sprintf('%d.jpeg',k);
Fullfilename=fullfile('Folder',jpegfilename);
Imagedata=imread(Fullfilename)
Originalimage=rgb2gray(imagedata);
Subplot(4,4,k)
Imshow(original image);%displays all my 16 distinct images.
%but when I run
ThresholdValue(k)=100
Binaryimage=originalimage>threshold. value(k);
%it returns for one image.
End
What am I doing wrong please? I need help. Thankyou
for example if your resultant image is stored in variable "IM_out" then use IM_out(:,:,k)

Creating animation with multiple plots in Octave

I'm using Octave to write a script that plots a function at different time periods. I was hoping to create an animation of the plots in order to see the changes through time.
Is there a way to save each plot for each time point, so that all plots can be combined to create this animation?
It's a bit of kludge, but you can do the following (works here with octave 4.0.0-rc2):
x = (-5:.1:5);
for p = 1:5
plot (x, x.^p)
print animation.pdf -append
endfor
im = imread ("animation.pdf", "Index", "all");
imwrite (im, "animation.gif", "DelayTime", .5)
Basically, print all your plots into a pdf, one per page. Then read the pdf's as images and print them back as gifs. This will not work on Matlab (its imread implementation can't handle pdf).
This creates an animated gif
data=rand(100,100,20); %100 by 100 and 20 frames
%data go from 0 to 1, so lets convert to 8 bit unsigned integers for saving
data=data*2^8;
data=uint8(data);
%Write the first frame to a file named animGif.gif
imwrite(data(:,:,1),'/tmp/animGif.gif','gif','writemode','overwrite',...
'LoopCount',inf,'DelayTime',0);
%Loop through and write the rest of the frames
for ii=2:size(data,3)
imwrite(data(:,:,ii),'/tmp/animGif.gif','gif','writemode','append','DelayTime',0)
end
Had to come chime in here because this was the top Google result for me when I was looking for help with this. I had issues with both answers, and some other issues, too. Notably:
For Rick T's answer, the code snippet doesn't write a plot figure, it just writes matrix data. Getting the plot window was a pain.
For carandraug's answer, writing to a PDF took a very long time and made a gigantic PDF.
On my own machine, I'm pretty sure I used apt-install to get Octave, but the getframe function I found referenced in other answers wasn't found. Turns out I had installed version 4.4, which was from 2018 (>3 years old).
I removed the old version of Octave sudo apt remove octave, then installed the new version with snap. If you try octave from a terminal without it installed it should prompt you to the snap install - be sure to include the # 6.4.0 or whatever is included in the command.
Once I had the current version installed, I got access to the getframe command, which is what lets you convert directly from a figure handle to image data - this bypasses the hackey (but previously necessary step) in #carandraug's answer where you had to write to PDF or some other image as a placeholder.
I used #RickT's answer to make my own MakeGif function, which I will share with you all here. Note that MakeGif stores the filename in a persistent variable, meaning it is retained across calls. If you change the filename it will make (or overwrite!!) the new file. If you need to overwrite the current file (i.e., running the same script multiple times and want new results) then you can use clear MakeGif between calls and that will reset the persistentFilename.
Here is the code for the MakeGif function; code to test it with is provided after this:
function MakeGif(figHandle, filename)
persistent persistentFilename = [];
if isempty(filename)
error('Can''t have an empty filename!');
endif
if ~ishandle(figHandle)
error('Call MakeGif(figHandle, filename); no valid figHandle was passed!');
endif
writeMode = 'Append';
if isempty(persistentFilename)|(filename!=persistentFilename)
persistentFilename = filename;
writeMode = 'Overwrite';
endif
imstruct = getframe(figHandle);
imwrite(imstruct.cdata, filename, 'gif', 'WriteMode',writeMode,'DelayTime',0);
endfunction
And here is the code to test the function. There's a commented-out call to clear MakeGif between the blue and green colors. If you leave it commented out it will append the green sine wave to the blue sine wave, resulting in alternating colors after every cycle - again the filename is persistent in the function. If you uncomment that call then the MakeGif function will treat the green's call as "new" and trigger the overwrite of the blue sine wave and all you'll see is green.
clear all;
time = 0:0.1:2*pi;
nSamples = numel(time);
figHandle = figure(1);
for i=1:nSamples
plot(time,sin(time + time(i)),'Color','blue');
drawnow;
MakeGif(figHandle, 'test.gif');
endfor
% Uncomment the 'clear' command below to clear the MakeGif persistent
% memory, which will trigger the green sine wave to overwrite the blue.
% Default behavior is to APPEND a green sine wave because the filename
% is the same.
%clear MakeGif;
for i=1:nSamples
plot(time,sin(time + time(i)),'Color','green');
drawnow;
MakeGif(figHandle, 'test.gif');
endfor
I spent several hours on this after being super dissatisfied with laggy screen captures so I really hope this helps someone in the future! Good luck and best wishes from the Age of Covid lol.
#Chuck thanks for that code; I've been using it to save 1500-frame GIFs of simulation output, and I find that after maybe ~500 frames the time to save the next frame to the output during the call to MakeGif starts to become ... unnerving. I guess imwrite reads and writes the entirety of the output file at each call that includes the 'WriteMode','Append' pair. At frame 1500 my output is 480Mb so that becomes untenable.
An apparent rescue for this is hinted at in the doc for Octave 7.1.0's imwrite, with the suggestion that you can pass it a 4-dimensional array and write the entire image sequence with one call. I haven't been able to make this work, though: Calling imwrite that way seems to simply write the very first image in the sequence into every frame in the output file.

MATLAB - image huffman encoding

I have a homework in which i have to convert some images to grayscale and compress them using huffman encoding. I converted them to grayscale and then i tried to compress them but i get an error. I used the code i found here.
Here is the code i'm using:
A=imread('Gray\36.png');
[symbols,p]=hist(A,unique(A))
p=p/sum(p)
[dict,avglen]=huffmandict(symbols,p)
comp=huffmanenco(A,dict)
This is the error i get. It occurs at the second line.
Error using eps
Class must be 'single' or 'double'.
Error in hist (line 90)
bins = xx + eps(xx);
What am i doing wrong?
Thanks.
P.S. how can i find the compression ratio for each image?
The problem is that when you specify the bin locations (the second input argument of 'hist'), they need to be single or double. The vector A itself does not, though. That's nice because sometimes you don't want to convert your whole dataset from an integer type to floating precision. This will fix your code:
[symbols,p]=hist(A,double(unique(A)))
Click here to see this issue is discussed more in detail.
first, try :
whos A
Seems like its type must be single or double. If not, just do A = double(A) after the imread line. Should work that way, however I'm surprised hist is not doing the conversion...
[EDIT] I have just tested it, and I am right, hist won't work in uint8, but it's okay as soon as I convert my image to double.

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