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.

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.

Answer 1

[David Young]

Some of the answers here should help.

[Image Analyst]

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.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

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:

[kiruthika r]

regionalMaxImage = imregionalmax(grayImage, 8); This instruction will give output even when the neighboring pixel has same value as central pixel. Only the central pixel should have the higher value than the 8 neighbor pixel.

[Image Analyst]

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');