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)
Related
If I have an image, in which there is a page of text shot on a uniform background, how can I auto detect the boundaries between the paper and the background?
An example of the image I want to detect is shown below. The images that I will be dealing with consist of a single page on a uniform background and they can be rotated at any angle.
One simple method would be to threshold the image by some known value once you convert the image to grayscale. The problem with that approach is that we are applying a global threshold and so some of the paper at the bottom of the image will be lost if you make the threshold too high. If you make the threshold too low, then you'll certainly get the paper, but you'll include a lot of the background pixels too and it will probably be difficult to remove those pixels with post-processing.
One thing I can suggest is to use an adaptive threshold algorithm. An algorithm that has worked for me in the past is the Bradley-Roth adaptive thresholding algorithm. You can read up about it here on a post I commented on a while back:
Bradley Adaptive Thresholding -- Confused (questions)
However, if you want the gist of it, an integral image of the grayscale version of the image is taken first. The integral image is important because it allows you to calculate the sum of pixels within a window in O(1) complexity. However, the calculation of the integral image is usually O(n^2), but you only have to do that once. With the integral image, you scan neighbourhoods of pixels of size s x s and you check to see if the average intensity is less than t% of the actual average within this s x s window then this is pixel classified as the background. If it's larger, then it's classified as being part of the foreground. This is adaptive because the thresholding is done using local pixel neighbourhoods rather than using a global threshold.
I've coded an implementation of the Bradley-Roth algorithm here for you. The default parameters for the algorithm are s being 1/8th of the width of the image and t being 15%. Therefore, you can just call it this way to invoke the default parameters:
out = adaptiveThreshold(im);
im is the input image and out is a binary image that denotes what belongs to foreground (logical true) or background (logical false). You can play around with the second and third input parameters: s being the size of the thresholding window and t the percentage we talked about above and can call the function like so:
out = adaptiveThreshold(im, s, t);
Therefore, the code for the algorithm looks like this:
function [out] = adaptiveThreshold(im, s, t)
%// Error checking of the input
%// Default value for s is 1/8th the width of the image
%// Must make sure that this is a whole number
if nargin <= 1, s = round(size(im,2) / 8); end
%// Default value for t is 15
%// t is used to determine whether the current pixel is t% lower than the
%// average in the particular neighbourhood
if nargin <= 2, t = 15; end
%// Too few or too many arguments?
if nargin == 0, error('Too few arguments'); end
if nargin >= 4, error('Too many arguments'); end
%// Convert to grayscale if necessary then cast to double to ensure no
%// saturation
if size(im, 3) == 3
im = double(rgb2gray(im));
elseif size(im, 3) == 1
im = double(im);
else
error('Incompatible image: Must be a colour or grayscale image');
end
%// Compute integral image
intImage = cumsum(cumsum(im, 2), 1);
%// Define grid of points
[rows, cols] = size(im);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(1:cols, 1:rows);
%// Ensure s is even so that we are able to index the image properly
s = s + mod(s,2);
%// Access the four corners of each neighbourhood
x1 = X - s/2; x2 = X + s/2;
y1 = Y - s/2; y2 = Y + s/2;
%// Ensure no co-ordinates are out of bounds
x1(x1 < 1) = 1;
x2(x2 > cols) = cols;
y1(y1 < 1) = 1;
y2(y2 > rows) = rows;
%// Count how many pixels there are in each neighbourhood
count = (x2 - x1) .* (y2 - y1);
%// Compute row and column co-ordinates to access each corner of the
%// neighbourhood for the integral image
f1_x = x2; f1_y = y2;
f2_x = x2; f2_y = y1 - 1; f2_y(f2_y < 1) = 1;
f3_x = x1 - 1; f3_x(f3_x < 1) = 1; f3_y = y2;
f4_x = f3_x; f4_y = f2_y;
%// Compute 1D linear indices for each of the corners
ind_f1 = sub2ind([rows cols], f1_y, f1_x);
ind_f2 = sub2ind([rows cols], f2_y, f2_x);
ind_f3 = sub2ind([rows cols], f3_y, f3_x);
ind_f4 = sub2ind([rows cols], f4_y, f4_x);
%// Calculate the areas for each of the neighbourhoods
sums = intImage(ind_f1) - intImage(ind_f2) - intImage(ind_f3) + ...
intImage(ind_f4);
%// Determine whether the summed area surpasses a threshold
%// Set this output to 0 if it doesn't
locs = (im .* count) <= (sums * (100 - t) / 100);
out = true(size(im));
out(locs) = false;
end
When I use your image and I set s = 500 and t = 5, here's the code and this is the image I get:
im = imread('http://i.stack.imgur.com/MEcaz.jpg');
out = adaptiveThreshold(im, 500, 5);
imshow(out);
You can see that there are some spurious white pixels at the bottom white of the image, and there are some holes we need to fill in inside the paper. As such, let's use some morphology and declare a structuring element that's a 15 x 15 square, perform an opening to remove the noisy pixels, then fill in the holes when we're done:
se = strel('square', 15);
out = imopen(out, se);
out = imfill(out, 'holes');
imshow(out);
This is what I get after all of that:
Not bad eh? Now if you really want to see what the image looks like with the paper segmented, we can use this mask and multiply it with the original image. This way, any pixels that belong to the paper are kept while those that belong to the background go away:
out_colour = bsxfun(#times, im, uint8(out));
imshow(out_colour);
We get this:
You'll have to play around with the parameters until it works for you, but the above parameters were the ones I used to get it working for the particular page you showed us. Image processing is all about trial and error, and putting processing steps in the right sequence until you get something good enough for your purposes.
Happy image filtering!
Suppose i would like to draw an image like the following:
Where the pixel values are refined to 0 for black and white for 1.
These line are drawn with specific radius and angles
Now I create a 80 x 160 matrix
texturematrix = zeros(80,160);
then i want to change particular elements to be 1 according to the lines conditions
but how do i make them repeatedly with specific distance apart from each others effectively?
Thanks a lot everyone!
This might not be what you are looking for, but generating such an image could be done by plotting a set of lines, as follows:
% grid sizes
m = 6;
n = 5;
% line length and angle
len = 1;
theta = .1*pi;
[a,b] = meshgrid(1:m,1:n);
x = reshape([a(:),a(:)+len*cos(theta),nan(numel(a),1)]',[],1);
y = reshape([b(:),b(:)+len*sin(theta),nan(numel(b),1)]',[],1);
h = figure();
plot(x,y,'k', 'LineWidth', 2);
But this has nothing to do with a texture matrix. So, we construct a matrix of desired size:
set(gca, 'position',[0 0 1 1], 'units','normalized', 'YTick',[], 'XTick',[]);
frame = frame2im(getframe(h),[0 0 1 1]);
im = imresize(frame,[80 160]);
M = ~(im(2:end,2:end,1)==255);
i want to draw image, do not know how to portray the image output kmeans
my code:
close all; clc; clear;
img = imread('pic7.png');
figure(), imshow(img);
impixelregion;
% nastavenie noveho obrazka
[y x z] = size(img)
for i=1:1:y
for j=1:1:x
imgNew(i, j, :) = 0;
end
end
[X_no_dither, map]= rgb2ind(img,8,'nodither');
figure, imshow(X_no_dither, map);
impixelregion;
m = im2double(X_no_dither)
idx = kmeans(m,4,'emptyaction','singleton');
how i draw image ?
Thanks.
In kmeans, the rows are the things we want to cluster (i.e. pixels by colour), the columns are the variables. Therefore, we cannot just pass in a image straight in, it has to be reshaped first. For example if we look at this MATLAB example., the image is first converted into lab colorspace (and is in lab_he).
First, they take only the a and b elements:
ab = double(lab_he(:,:,2:3));
Then, reshape so that ab is of size n x m where n = total number of pixels and m = 2 - this is because each pixel is being clustered based on both a and b values:
nrows = size(ab,1);
ncols = size(ab,2);
ab = reshape(ab,nrows*ncols,2);
Now, sort those pixels into three colors:
nColors = 3;
% repeat the clustering 3 times to avoid local minima
[cluster_idx cluster_center] = kmeans(ab,nColors,'distance','sqEuclidean', ...
'Replicates',3);
The result then has to be reshape'd back into an image to be displayed:
pixel_labels = reshape(cluster_idx,nrows,ncols);
imshow(pixel_labels,[]), title('image labeled by cluster index');
In your case, as you're using a indexed image, try something like this:
idx = kmeans(m(:),4,'emptyaction','singleton');
idx = reshape(idx,size(m));
imshow(idx, []);
m(:) just arranges the pixels as a single column. kmeans then sorts them into four clusters. Afterwards, we reshape the indexes back using the size of our input image, and then display with imshow as normal.
You should read the linked example closely and make sure you understand what they are doing and why.
I want to find out if a given image is an exact or similar part of another image in matlab.
For example, detecting a score bar in a cricket video frame. I would like to detect if there is a scorebar displayed in the given image or not.
1. Larger image
2. Another image
3. Check if this is a subimage
I want to check if 3 is a part of 1 or not. Not an exact part. For example, even if a scorebar exists in 1, and they are not the same scorebars, that would do.
What I am trying:
I am trying to divide the larger image into small parts and take the last part of the image and calculate hue histogram difference with the scorebar image. If it falls below a certain threshold, I should classify that as a part of the bigger image. Is this the right approach or should I follow some other better approach. Please suggest me if you have a better one.
Code I wrote:
rgbImage = imread('img7517.jpg'); %bigger image
[r, c, x] = size(rgbImage);
numberOfBins = 256;
r1 = 6*r/7;
im = rgbImage(r1:r,:,1);
subplot(2,2,1);
imshow(im);
hsv = rgb2hsv(im);
h = hsv(:,:,1);
subplot(2,2,2);
hist(h(:), numberOfBins);
[counts, y] = hist(h(:), numberOfBins);
im1 = imread('scorebar.jpg'); %smaller image
subplot(2,2,3);
imshow(im1);
hsv = rgb2hsv(rgbImage);
h = hsv(:,:,1);
subplot(2,2,4);
hist(h(:), numberOfBins);
[count, y] = hist(h(:), numberOfBins);
c = sum(abs(counts(:) - count(:)));
disp(c);
Problem
But this doesn't give me any significance histogram difference between 1,3 and 2,3. Value of c for 1,3 is 72949 and for 2,3 is 72875. How do I do this? Is the problem due to code or approach? Please help me solve this problem.
Edit:
Trying normalized cross-correlation,
im1 = rgb2gray(imread('replay.jpg'));
im2 = rgb2gray(imread('scorebar1.jpg'));
c = normxcorr2(im2, im1);
[ypeak, xpeak] = find(c==max(c(:)));
yoffSet = ypeak-size(im1,1);
xoffSet = xpeak-size(im1,2);
hFig = figure;
hAx = axes;
imshow(im2,'Parent', hAx);
imrect(hAx, [xoffSet, yoffSet, size(im1,2), size(im1,1)]);
following this link. But doesn't gives a similar analysis.
This class of problem (finding a target image within a larger image) is known as template matching. Typically you might use normalised cross-correlation, but there are various different algorithms, depending on your requirements and specific use case.
Unfortunately your home-brew histogram-based algorithm is probably not going to give very good results, as you have already observed, so you'll probably need to try one of the commonly-used methods described in the articles linked to above.
Solution, I got,
im1 = rgb2gray(imread('img1.jpg'));
im2 = rgb2gray(imread('scorebar.jpg'));
[r, c, x] = size(rgbImage);
numberOfBins = 256;
r1 = 6*r/7;
im1 = im1(r1:r,:,1);
[counts, y] = imhist(im1, numberOfBins);
[count, y] = imhist(im2, numberOfBins);
c = sum(abs(counts(:) - count(:)));
disp(c);
This gives significance hue histogram difference(HHD) between histograms. The images who have scorebars have HHD from 2000-5000, those who don't have scorebars have HHD > 10000.
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)