Have you ever used the distance transform? For a binary image, the distance transform is the distance from every pixel to the nearest foreground (nonzero) pixel. (Sometimes you'll see... read more >>

How can I possibly resist the opportunity to post about something called METACOW? The Munsell Color Science Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has made available... read more >>

The book Matrix Computations by Gene Golub and Charles Van Loan sits on the bookshelves of many MathWorks employees. Professor Golub, one of the founding members of the Stanford University... read more >>

Earlier this year I exchanged e-mail with blog reader Craig Doolittle. Craig was writing MATLAB scripts to clean up scanned pages from old manuscripts. One of the samples he sent me was... read more >>