Steve on Image Processing
January 4th, 2008
A Second Year of Blogging
Happy New Year everyone!
I just wrapped up a second year of blogging about image processing in MATLAB. I write once or twice a week about image processing algorithms, image processing concepts, and MATLAB implementations. Plus whatever else interests me!
I've been at MathWorks for about 14 years now. When I started here, MATLAB 4.0 was new, the mugs said "Picture the Power!", and PCs had 8MB of RAM, 8-bit graphics cards, and Windows 3.1. (And my beard had no gray.) We've all come a long way since then.
In 2007 I posted 71 times. To post that often and still get my "day job" done, I try hard to take only an hour or so to prepare each post. Some of the year's topics include:
My favorite post title of the year was METACOW.
If you haven't been reading the blog very long, click on "Blog archive" on the right to explore past topics. Be sure to check out some of the posts back in 2006, such as the series on pixel colors in MATLAB, or the series on spatial transformations.
I read carefully every comment posted here, and I reply to many of them. Because of the volume of comments and e-mail, I am usually limited to spending a minute or two on each response. For questions that require too much time, I sometimes send a standard response that includes links to many sources of information about image processing and MATLAB. In recent months I've started deleting requests for help with student projects, or requests for custom code. The volume of those requests was getting out of hand, and I didn't want them to drown out more relevant reader comments.
Often reader comments and questions that are of general interest lead to new posts, such as intensity-weighted centroids.
If you want to be notified about new posts, you can subscribe to the RSS feed, or you can request e-mail notification. See the links under "Subscribe" on the right.
You'll also find lots of useful information in the other MATLAB Central blogs:
Finally, would you like to help me refill my list of potential blog topics? Please add a comment with topics you'd like to see.
I wish everyone a happy and productive 2008!
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Hi Steve,
I enjoyed the ‘Cleaning up Scanned Image’ blog recently. I am always fascinated by problems with a morphological element. So more of that kind of problem would be welcome.
I also really enjoyed Stan Reeves guest blogs. Those were really clear prsentations of deblurring.
The upslope area thing dragged on a bit although it did cover a lot of ground.
Keep up the good work
Matt
Matt—Thanks for the comments. And I agree, the upslope area series was definitely too long.
Steve -
Congrats on another year of (what I consider) high-quality blogging. I continue to enjoy learning new things here, especially the unexpectedly useful things that come from outside my usual field.
Metacow was cool as a title and the linked content.
One wish list item would be some examinations of the machine vision / automated quantitative image analysis applications. I think ML can be very powerful in this area due to its flexible language, growing hardware support, and matrix roots.
Here’s to another year of blogs, I hope you continue to find the time.
Best,
Rob
Thanks, Rob.
Steve, Stasi Revel has invited me to blog you (and others).
Have you any experience of drift compensating video imagery in electron microscopy? If I had a regular AVI, with a field of view feature suffering from thermal drift, do you know of software to drift compensate? This exists already in drift compensated STEM/AEM x-ray mapping.I am stunned that it does not “apparently” exist for video imagery in high resolution TEM/STEM. Can you get back? Graham Cliff, Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester.
Graham—No, I am not familiar with processing algorithms specifically for electron microscope imagery.
Congratulations! Your blog is very good:)