How to extract specific values from a table
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Dear All I'm aiming to measure the distance between all points in one frame and all points in the next frame. So I want to Create a table (let’s call this “table i”)which only contains points in frame i (where “i" is the index of that frame) Create another table (“table i+1”), which only contains points in frame i+1 Create a 2D distance matrix (width equal to the number of points in frame i and height equal to the number of points in frame i+1) where each element is the Pythagoras distance between two points. How can I implement this as a code ? Thank you
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Adam Danz
on 17 Jul 2019
Following my example in my answer, here's how to calculate the distance between point 'p' in frame 'f' to all points in frame 'f+1'.
The example shows distances between the 3rd point of frame 4 and all points in frame 5.
f = 4; %frame number 1:1000
p = 3; %point number (within frame) 1:30
% Find distance between point p of frame f and all points in frame f+1
fIdx = T.Frame == f; %index for frame f
f2Idx = T.Frame == f+1; %index for frame f+1
pIdx = max(find(fIdx,p)); %index of point p in frame f
d = pdist2([T.centreX(pIdx),T.centreY(pIdx)],[T.centreX(f2Idx),T.centreY(f2Idx)])';
Note that d(p) should be 0 since the (x,y) coordinates do not change between frames.
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Adam Danz
on 15 Jul 2019
Edited: Adam Danz
on 16 Jul 2019
If I understand your question correctly, you want to measure the distance each (x,y) coordinate travels between frames. Is that correct? It looks like the (x,y) centers of your circles do not change between frames. For example, the first (x,y) coordinate at frame 1 is (144.09, 131,56) and this coordinate is the same for frame 2, 3, etc... When I run the code below, the distance is always 0. Maybe I'm not understanding your problem.
%% Import data and store in table "T"
opts = spreadsheetImportOptions("NumVariables", 4);
opts.Sheet = "in";
opts.DataRange = "A2:D30001";
opts.VariableNames = ["centreX", "centreY", "Radius", "Frame"];
opts.SelectedVariableNames = ["centreX", "centreY", "Radius", "Frame"];
opts.VariableTypes = ["double", "double", "double", "double"];
T = readtable("C:\Users\adanz\Documents\MATLAB\savehere\matlabCentralDocs_trash\DataTable_SER.xlsx", opts, "UseExcel", false);
%% Calculate distance between frames
nFrames = max(T.Frame);
distFcn = @(x1,x2,y1,y2)sqrt((x2-x1).^2 + (y2-y1).^2); %distance function
dist = nan(sum(T.Frame == 1), nFrames-1); %assumes there are an equal number of frames for all frames
for i = 2:nFrames
% Index for frame i
idx2 = T.Frame == i;
% Index for frame i-1
idx1 = T.Frame == i-1;
% Calculate distance
dist(:,i-1) = distFcn(T.centreX(idx2),T.centreX(idx1),T.centreY(idx2),T.centreY(idx1));
end
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