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mat2gray: big rewrite, function seems to not be working for several octave releases. Also should now be completely compatible with matlab
author carandraug
date Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:08:40 +0000
parents fdfaaf68dab0
children a1c3dcfb7dab
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## Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
## Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
## version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{I} =} mat2gray (@var{M}, [@var{min} @var{max}])
## Converts a matrix to a intensity image.
## @seealso{gray2ind, ind2gray, rgb2gray, im2double, im2uin16, im2uint8, im2int16}
## @end deftypefn

function out = mat2gray (in, scale)

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage;
  elseif (!ismatrix (in) || ischar(in))
    error ("mat2gray: first argument must be a matrix");
  elseif (nargin == 2 && (!isvector (scale) || numel (scale) != 2))
    error ("mat2gray: second argument must be a vector with 2 elements");
  endif

  if (nargin == 1)
    out_min = min (in(:));
    out_max = max (in(:));
  else
    ## see more at the end for the cases where max and min are swapped
    out_min = min (scale (1), scale (2));
    out_max = max (scale (1), scale (2));
  endif

  ## since max() and min() return a value of same class as input,
  ## need to make this values double or the calculations later may fail
  out_min = double (out_min);
  out_max = double (out_max);

  out = ones (size (in));
  if (out_min == out_max)
    ## if max and min are the same, matlab seems to simple return 1s, even
    ## for values under the minimum/maximum. As such, we are done here
    return
  endif

  out(in <= out_min) = 0;
  ## no need to worry with values above or equal to out_max because
  ## the output matrix was already generated with ones()

  ## it's faster to get the index of values between max and min only once
  ## than to have it calculated on both sides of the assignment
  idx      = (in > out_min & in < out_max);
  out(idx) =  (1/(out_max - out_min)) * (double(in(idx)) - out_min);

  ## if the given min and max are in the inverse order...
  if (nargin > 1 && scale(1) > scale (2))
    ## matlab seems to allow setting the min higher than the max but not by
    ## checking which one is actually correct. Seems to just invert it
    out = abs (out - 1);
  endif

endfunction

%!assert(mat2gray([1 2 3]), [0 0.5 1]);           # standard use
%!assert(mat2gray(repmat ([1 2; 3 3], [1 1 3])), repmat ([0 0.5; 1 1], [1 1 3])); # setting min and max
%!assert(mat2gray([1 2 3], [2 2]), [1 1 1]);      # equal min and max
%!assert(mat2gray([1 2 3], [3 1]), [1 0.5 0]);    # max and min inverted