Convert an rgb image to grayscale but keep one color. Function to convert rgb to grayscale matlab answers. Based on your location, we recommend that you select. Btw, omitting the clear all is a good idea, because there is no reason to remove all loaded functions from the memory. Examples using the matlab functions for image format conversion and equalization are. These are the same weights used by the rgb2ntsc function to compute the y component. I want to convert a grayscale image to rgb, but i dont want to use the gray2rgb command, i know that the input matrix is 2d, but the output image should be 3d, but i just dont know how to do it. Problem with rgb2gray function learn more about rgb2gray, gui, guide, binary image processing toolbox. Getting good results from optimizationbased image registration usually requires modifying optimizer or metric settings for the pair of images being registered.
With rgb2ind you dont pass in the number of colors in the input image, you pass in the number of colors you want in the indexed image. Nov 09, 2011 i never tried such conversion but here is something it might work. You are not getting an image from an axes with that code. I assume, anywhere in the universe there is a dwarfish and evil teacher, who instructs the pupils to use clear all, most of all when posting code in a forum, to test when i desperate and give up mentioning this trivial but important detail. So to test whether the array represents a grayscale image or represents an rgb image, you can test whether the third dimension is size greater than 1 because it will be 1 for 2 dimensional. Read on grayscale to rgb a multipart challenge happy thanksgiving, and happy matlabbing. Does matlab have a function to convert 24bit rgb to 24bit. How to convert grayscale to rgb learn more about colormap, image processing, grayscale to rgb.
Converting images from grayscale to color matlab central blogs. Convert a color image to grayscale in matlab without rgb2gray duplicate ask question asked 5 years, 9 months ago. Many different combinations of rgb values convert to the same grayscale level, so if all you have at a location is the grayscale level, then you cannot know which of the 65536 rgb values that map to the exact same grayscale that the rgb came from. When we are working with color image processing we need not to use rgb2gray conversion similarly if the image is already in grayscale. Learn more about color segmentation, color space image processing toolbox. Li tan, jean jiang, in digital signal processing second edition, 20. Minimum variance quantization cuts the rgb color cube into smaller boxes not necessarily cubes of different sizes, depending on. Gr rgb2grayrgb, where the output image gr is of the same class as the input image rgb that can be uint8,uint16,single or double. Oct 19, 2014 convert from rgb to grayscale without rgb2gray. Convert rgb image or colormap to grayscale matlab rgb2gray. Rgb is a threedimensional variable, but you are only trying to save two of the dimensions sizes. If you are running the console version of matlab, and want the details regarding a. This will be helpful for image processing and computer vision researchers. This just makes a grayscale image, with values ranging from 0 to 255, into a rgb truecolor image with values ranging from 0 to 1 in each of the 3 colors.
How can i convert the grayscale images to rgb images in matlab. When generating code, if you choose the generic matlab host computer target platform, rgb2gray generates code that uses a precompiled, platformspecific shared library. Sep 07, 2014 convert an rgb image to grayscale but keep one. This applies for any kind of image processing whether fpga, matlab or. How to convert rgb images to grayscale in matlab without using rgb2gray 2 answers closed 2 years ago. If you have the image processing toolbox, you should use the rgb2gray function. Convert from rgb to grayscale without rgb2gray matlab. Intensitybased image registration matlab imregister.
If you look at the algorithm description in the documentation for rgb2gray, it is using the weighting that you want for for the r,g,b channels. You may have a million colors in your input image one unique color for every pixel but if youre calling rgb2ind then youre saying that you want an image with fewer colors in it, say 4 or 16, or 42 or 256 or whatever. Read on this weeks blog is image processingcentric, but it includes a challenge for matlab geeks everywhere. Minimum variance quantization if you specify q, then rgb2ind uses minimum variance quantization.
In the code youve posted, the variable that you designated as m will have a value equal to product of the number of columns and the number of colors in your image. Getting good results from optimizationbased image registration usually requires modifying optimizer or metric. I have a bitmap image with truecolor, convert it to the grayscale image for some operations. My tests show that if you take all possible rgb values and convert them to gray, that on average 65536 different combinations map to each value. The coefficients used to calculate grayscale values in rgb2gray are identical to those used to calculate luminance. Create an optimizer and metric with the imregconfig function before calling imregister. Oct 20, 2017 this tutorial describes how to convert a color image into the grayscale image using building in function of matlab. I never tried such conversion but here is something it might work. Use imregister when you want a registered output image. Gray image to rgb image matlab answers matlab central. Learn more about matrix, matrix manipulation, image processing image processing toolbox. Aug 31, 20 you cannot convert grayscale images back to rgb without loss of information. Note that the matrix has data type double with values outside of the range 0,1, including negative values display the result of the operation.
Now i want to convert the grayscale images to the bit map images with true colours, all this in matlab. Matlab has a rgb2ycbcr function and ycbcr2rgb function try that. The rgb2gray function converts rgb images to grayscale by eliminating the hue. Use of a shared library preserves performance optimizations but limits the target platforms for which code can be generated. This tutorial describes how to convert a color image into the grayscale image using building in function of matlab. Aug, 2015 in matlab, if you take the size of the 3rd dimension of a 2 dimensional object, the result is 1. In matlab, if you take the size of the 3rd dimension of a 2 dimensional object, the result is 1. Error while using rgb2gray matlab answers matlab central. You cannot convert grayscale images back to rgb without loss of information.
Height by width is the same as height by width by 1. I want convert my color image to grayscale and avoid to use rgb2gray command. You read it from a file, then find axes on your figure and display the image from the file into that axes. Jeny, of course, is due some swagits on the way, jeny. Jul 21, 20 i was see the matlab explication about rg2bgray function but i dont understand what is the origin of the numbers that appear in the matlab help. Jan 30, 20 btw, omitting the clear all is a good idea, because there is no reason to remove all loaded functions from the memory.
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