Updated: 2012-02-11 15:35:05
Early this morning my wife found me in the family room, typing away at my laptop. She glimpsed this diagram on my screen and asked if I was playing chess. "I'm doing MATLAB, Cody, and chess at the same time," I responded. She gave me the "I have a weird husband" look and left to [...]
Updated: 2012-02-07 00:28:31
I want to let readers know that I'm experimenting with a new comment policy. I started this blog at the beginning of 2006. At first, I left comments open and only filtered out obvious spam. Soon, though, I found that I couldn't handle the volume of comments. Also, most comments were off-topic, which I thought [...]
Updated: 2012-01-31 18:59:38
Last week I happened to come across a summary I wrote after completing my first month at MathWorks. This was quite a while a go ... December 1993! I was hired to take over development of the Image Processing Toolbox, which had just shipped version 1.0. From the summary, I see that I spent a [...]
Updated: 2012-01-26 04:40:47
This week I came across some files I wrote about 16 years ago to compute Hilbert curves. A Hilbert curve is a type of fractal curve; here is a sample: I can't remember why I was working on this. Possibly I was anticipating that 16 years in the future, during an unusually mild New England [...]
Updated: 2012-01-13 20:50:33
Much of the information I posted in this blog years ago is still useful today. Image processing theory hasn't been completely been overturned since then, and I'm still talking about MATLAB after all. For the benefit of readers who have joined the party more recently, I will occasionally recap the useful bits that I posted [...]
Updated: 2011-12-28 00:00:45
Blog reader Mike posed the following question recently: If you have a bunch of point locations (for example, object centroids), how you make a binary image containing just those points? For example, consider this image:bw = imread('text.png'); imshow(bw, 'InitialMagnification', 200) How can we make an image like this, where the dots are located at the [...]
Updated: 2011-12-23 00:00:31
Blog reader Asadullah posted the following question last week on my old post about batch processing: I am trying to process some images by following the MATLAB demo. After getting the names of files when I try to see any of the files then it gives the error. The detail is as follows: >> fileFolder [...]
Updated: 2011-12-21 13:20:18
For the past several weeks I've been writing about shortest-path problems in image processing: finding the shortest path between two points in an image, with and without constraints. Applications included the practical (path finding in a skeleton image) and fun (maze solving). Along the way, I've described: the basic idea of finding shortest paths by [...]
