How to compare the intensity of the central pixel with its 8 neighboring pixel in an image? Can anyone help me with its matlab code? Also I have to save my central pixel if its intensity value is greater than other pixels.
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How to compare the intensity of the central pixel with its 8 neighboring pixel in an image? Can anyone help me with its matlab code? Also I have to save my central pixel if its intensity value is greater than other pixels.
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David Young
on 9 Aug 2015
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Image Analyst
on 9 Aug 2015
Except that those answers were written before the built-in function came out that does this. I don't recommend what I answered there and instead recommend my answer below.
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Image Analyst
on 9 Aug 2015
What does "compare" mean to you? If you want to scan an image with a 3x3 window and just create an output image where the the pixel is true if it's the greatest/highest value in a 3x3 window, use imregionalmax():
% See where the pixel is greater then the 8 surrounding neighbors
regionalMaxImage = imregionalmax(grayImage, 8);
Attached below the image is the full demo:
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Image Analyst
on 9 Aug 2015
In that case, use imdilate() with a ring-shaped structuring element and a < comparison:
% Create a kernel to get the max of the 8 surrounding pixels
structuringElement = [1,1,1;1,0,1;1,1,1];
% Do the dilation
dilatedImage = imdilate(grayImage, structuringElement);
% See where the pixel is greater then the 8 surrounding neighbors
itsBigger = dilatedImage < grayImage;
% Display the local max image.
subplot(2, 1, 2);
imshow(itsBigger, []);
axis on;
title('Local Max', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');
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