How to show picture at specified relative position in a plot?

Hello, by using the the "axes" and "imshow" command, it is possible to place a picture at a specified position in an existing figure / plot using. For example, see question + answer

How to place an image over existing plot.

However, the coordinates used by the "axes" command refer to the entire figure window. In my case, I want the picture displayed at positions which refer to the x / y axes of the main plot, i.e. (0, 0) shall not be the lower left corner of the figure, but the origin of xy coordinates of the plot.

Background: I am trying to built a work-around for a previous inquiry lnk Multiple (rotated) histograms in one xy plot. I have created multiple pictures (= identically scaled and rotated histograms), now I want show them "stacked": Their baseline should be at specified x coordinates of the xy-plot (e.g. x=1, x=2, x=3)

Thanks in advance for any input, Dan

[jonas]

It's possible. You just need to convert the axes1 position to figure position. Fairly easy to do this from scratch, but I recall seeing a FEX function for this... I'll see if I can find it

EDIT: this is the one I was thinking about

https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10656-data-space-to-figure-units-conversion

Answer 1

[DGM]

To insert an image does not require an overlaid axes. You can do it as in this example:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/305543-how-to-insert-image-in-matlab#answer_1175570

That said, using an overlaid axes might be desirable if you wanted the inserted histograms to actually be histogram objects instead of static screenshots.