Activity 3: Image Types and Basic Image Enhancement
Image Types
True Color Image
from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8700785@N08/643095209/
FileName: truecolor.jpg
FileSize: 189687
Format: JPEG
Width: 500
Height: 493
Depth: 8
StorageType: truecolor
NumberOfColors: 0
ResolutionUnit: inch
XResolution: 72.000000
YResolution: 72.000000
Indexed Images.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Adaptative_8bits_palette_sample_image.png
FileName: indexed.png
FileSize: 25576
Format: PNG
Width: 150
Height: 200
Depth: 8
StorageType: indexed
NumberOfColors: 256
ResolutionUnit: centimeter
XResolution: 72.000000
YResolution: 72.000000
Grayscale Image.
This is obtained by getting images from the web. However, this image is still 24 bits (which is not a property of grayscale images). To convert it to 8 bit (which is true grayscale), use the code:
im=imread(‘grayscale.jpg’);
im=im(:,:,1);
imwrite(im(:,:), ‘gs.jpg’);
from: http://blog.paranoidferret.com/files/Tutorials/CSharp/Grayscale/bw_flower.jpg
FileName: gs.jpg
FileSize: 9217
Format: JPEG
Width: 250
Height: 250
Depth: 8
StorageType: indexed
NumberOfColors: 256
ResolutionUnit: inch
XResolution: 72.000000
YResolution: 72.000000
Histogram and Thresholding
The histogram of the grayscale image was obtained using the following code:
//Jeric Tugaff
//Histogram
im=imread(‘grayscale.jpg’); //opens a 24 bit image
im=im(:,:,1);
imwrite(im(:,:), ‘gs.jpg’); //converts to 8 bit grayscale image
im=imread(‘gs.jpg’);
val=[];
num=[];
counter=1;
for i=0:1:255
[x,y]=find(im==i); //finds where im==i
val(counter)=i;
num(counter)=length(x); //find how many pixels of im have value of i
counter=counter+1;
end
plot(val, num); //plot. 🙂
We obtained this plot of the histogram for the image of a grayscale flower:
The two peaks in the histogram plot is a hint that the image is of high quality, and is good for tresholding. To do the thresholding, we use the code:
im=imread(‘gs.jpg’);
thresh=140;
im=im2bw(im, thresh/255);
imshow(im);
This results to this binary image:
Application To Getting Area of Images
The images show the effect of tresholding to the leaf image. The name of the image corresponds to the treshold. We can see that the most appriate is using threshold value of 200/255. The method done in using the area follows from the previous exercise. For this activity, the area is 20108.5 while the theoretical area is 20505 with error of 1.9%.
//Jeric Tugaff
//Getting image areas through green’s theorem and grayscale image tresholding
im=imread(‘leaf_cropped.JPG’);
im=im2gray(im); //convert to grayscale
im=im2bw(im, 200/255);
im=1*(im==0); //inverts the image
[x,y]=follow(im);
x1=[];
x1(1:length(x)-1)=x(2:length(x));
x1(length(x))=x(1);
y1=[];
y1(1:length(y)-1)=y(2:length(y));
y1(length(y))=y(1);
area=0.5*abs(sum(x1.*y-y1.*x))Â //green’s theorem
ta=0;
[sx, sy]=size(im);Â Â Â //finds the area through recatangles
for i=1:sy
f=find(im(:, i)==1);
ta=ta+max(f)-min(f);
end
ta
err=(area-ta)/ta*100
//[r,s]=imhist(‘leaf_cropped.JPG’);
jagged tooth v2.1 
