To find the centeral pixel of coloured image ... ?

i want to find the centeral pixel of a nxn window of a colored image of size 512x512 ...

say, i want to make a matrix of 3x3 and so 5x5 and so on to find out the centeral pixel within that window ...

is there any method or command to find out ???

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

So ambigous. What is "matrix"? Is that "window" or is that "image"? If you have an image, and you have a location (row, column) where the n-by-n window is centered (with n being odd such as 3, 5, or 7) then the center pixel is located at (row, column) and it does not depend on the window size. For example a window located at row=100, column=200 and width 3 will cover rows going from 99 to 101 and 199 to 201, but the center is still at 100, 200 regardless of what the window size is. The color values can be extracted like this:

redValue = rgbImage(row, column, 1);
greenValue = rgbImage(row, column, 2);
blueValue = rgbImage(row, column, 3);

[jagkaran]

the colour components u have told ... that i have already understood ... i want to know the method to find the centeral pixel ...

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

blockproc() or (for older systems) blkproc()

Also, I am by no means certain, but I think you might be able to do it for odd-sized n x n windows as:

mask = zeros(n); mask(ceil(numel(mask)/2)) = 1;
conv2(YourImage, mask)

I think that you will find that in practice the output looks almost exactly like YourImage...

[jagkaran]

what does this numel denotes ...?

[Image Analyst]

Have you looked in the help? Apparently not because it's right in there. It's one of the main functions of MATLAB. You should really learn to use the help before asking people, especially for functions that are right in there.

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

If you have a 3 x 3 mask, the central pixel is at index (2,2), which is ( (3+1)/2, (3+1)/2 ). Index (2,2) inside a 3 x 3 matrix is at MATLAB absolute index position 5, which is (3*3 + 1)/2

If you have a 5 x 5 mask, the central pixel is at index (3,3), which is ( (5+1)/2, (5+1)/2 ). Index (3,3) inside a 5 x 5 matrix is at MATLAB absolute index position 13, which is (5*5 + 1)/2

In general, for an n x n mask, the central pixel is at index ( (n+1)/2, (n+1)/2 ), which is at MATLAB absolute index (n * n + 1)/2

So now you know how to find the central pixel of an square matrix with odd-numbered dimensions.

Not very exciting at all. And if you use a sliding window technique with overlaps, extracting the central pixel each time will be exactly the same as the original image (except perhaps with the border cropped).