change an image from rectangular to square by adding white area
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Dears, i have a dataset that im working on but all of them in rectangular shape, i wand them to be square by adding white area ( raws or coloumns depending on the image) many thanks in advanced
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Rik
on 17 Nov 2022
What have you tried so far? This type of padding should not be too hard. Note that the value that you need to add may depend on the data type and value range of the image.
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Rik
on 17 Nov 2022
Edited: Rik
on 17 Nov 2022
The documentation for padarray states it will pad with 0. If you don't want that, you will have to provide the value as the third argument. You probably want 255, but you can use the code below to determine that dynamically.
switch class(im)
case 'uint8'
padval = uint8(255);
case 'double'
padval = 1;
otherwise
error('check what value you need')
end
Edit: a much better solution that this code is to use the function that @DGM showed in his answer: getrangefromclass.
range = getrangefromclass(im)
padval = range(2);
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DGM
on 17 Nov 2022
Edited: DGM
on 17 Nov 2022
I don't normally use getrangefromclass(), but that's one way to get the white value. Of course, it's impossible to tell that the result is padded here because it's displayed on a white background
inpict = imread('peppers.png');
%inpict = rot90(inpict); % will pad either dimension
outpict = squarewhitematting(inpict);
imshow(outpict)
function outpict = squarewhitematting(inpict)
% add symmetric white padding to the smaller dimension of the image geometry
% so that the resulting image is square
% INPICT is an image of any standard image class, with any number of channels.
% multiframe images are supported
% get nominal black and white value
valuerange = getrangefromclass(inpict);
[h,w,~] = size(inpict);
if h == w
% nothing to do
outpict = inpict;
return;
else
if w > h % wide image; pad top/bot
padamt = [(w-h)/2 0];
else % tall image; pad l/r
padamt = [0 (h-w)/2];
end
% use floor/ceil to deal with odd differences
outpict = padarray(inpict,floor(padamt),valuerange(2),'pre');
outpict = padarray(outpict,ceil(padamt),valuerange(2),'post');
end
end
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Rik
on 17 Nov 2022
Something strange is going on if that line doesn't work. image is the primitive that is called by imshow (just like plot calls line and surf calls patch).
But if you have a working solution now, that should do it. There is no fundamental difference between the code I suggested and what DGM implemented (other than that DGM provided you with a full implementation).
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