Finding 'Zoomed' coordinates in an image

Hello,

I have a BW image as shown below on which some points are marked.

I want to write a code to zoom into the image so that the image and these points look like the one shown below:

After zooming, the coordinates of these points would have changed in the displayed image.

My question is, how to find these final coordinates after zooming?

Thanking You, Harshil

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

When you plotted the magenta + symbols with plot, you used plot(x,y,'m+'). The position of the symbols on your screen change but the x and y do not. So if you plotted a blue circle at the same x and y, plot(x, y, 'bo'), it would show up at the very same location as the magenta plus signs.

See attached demo for zooming and scrolling via a scroll panel.

[Harshil Patel]

I think I did not express my question correctly.

As you said, "The position of the symbols on your screen change but the x and y do not." I totally agree with this.

However, my problem statement is to identify strongest feature points on an object (done using SURF), and then enlarge that object such that it almost fills up the screen.

Therefore, I want to know if there is a way to make a new, zoomed in image, and find the coordinates of those magenta points in THAT NEW image.

Harshil

[Image Analyst]

I guess you'd crop out the image from the bounding box of the salient points, and then run SURF again on the cropped image to get the new coordinates in the new cropped image.

[Harshil Patel]

Thank you! This worked partially! So what I did was following:

1. Found SURF points for the initial image (call it Image A).

2. Made a bounding box around the object.

3. Cropped the image with the bounding box as the boundary (using imcrop). Due to this, the size of the image drops from 1280 x 720 to 700 x 500 or something.

4. Resized the image to 1280 x 720 using imresize (call this Image B).

5. Run SURF again on Image B. Points obtained are as follows:

As you can see, the POINTS (I am not talking about coordinates) I obtain from Image B are not the same points as the ones in Image A.

It should seem like I am zooming along the principal axis; size of the image should not change, the POINTS should not change, just the COORDINATES of those points should change.

Harshil