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I thought the technique was cool and worth showing. I also noticed that the example uses several Image Processing Toolbox functions that haven't been in the product very long, including: <\/p>\r\n
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So I realized this would be a good chance to introduce you to some recent toolbox additions that you might not know about.<\/p>\r\n The two functions I have mentioned these functions in a couple of previous blog posts, including \"Displaying a color gamut surface\"<\/a> and \"Out-of-gamut colors.\"<\/a><\/p>\r\n The function The function In my first year of writing this blog (2006), I wrote my own function with this name and submitted it to the File Exchange. Now that the Image Processing Toolbox has its own version, I'll probably remove mine from the File Exchange soon. <\/p>\r\n A \"superpixel\" is simply a group of connected pixels that have similar colors. Computing superpixels has found a regular place in a variety of image analysis and computer vision tasks. The Image Processing Toolbox function The superpixel posterization method, as implemented by Alex, starts by using Here's how it works.<\/p> Next, compute and visualize the superpixel clusters.<\/p> In the next step, I want to replace the pixels in each superpixel cluster with the mean of the cluster's colors. But I want to compute the mean in L*a*b* space, so I start by converting from RGB to L*a*b*. <\/p> I'll use the function For each of the Finally, convert back to RGB space.<\/p> Today's blog post was inspired by an example written by my friend and Image Processing Toolbox developer, Alex Taylor. A few years back, Alex tinkered with using toolbox algorithms to achieve a... read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1217,178,1155,737,76,36,1115,1221,308,162,1113,72,1219,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}rgb2lab and lab2rgb<\/h3>\r\n
boundarymask<\/h3>\r\n
I = imread('rice.png'<\/span>);\r\nbw = imbinarize(I,'adaptive'<\/span>);\r\nmask = boundarymask(bw);\r\nsubplot(1,2,1)\r\nimshow(I)\r\ntitle('Original image'<\/span>)\r\nsubplot(1,2,2)\r\nimshow(mask)\r\ntitle('Boundary mask'<\/span>)\r\n<\/pre>![](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/paintByNumbersSuperpixels_2.png\"){kind=tracking}
imoverlay<\/h3>\r\n
I_overlay = imoverlay(I,mask,'yellow'<\/span>);\r\nimshow(I_overlay)\r\n<\/pre>![](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/paintByNumbersSuperpixels_3.png\"){kind=tracking}
superpixels<\/h3>\r\n
A = imread('kobi.png'<\/span>);\r\nL = superpixels(A,1500);\r\nmask = boundarymask(L);\r\nB = imoverlay(A,mask,'cyan'<\/span>);\r\nclf\r\nimshow(B)\r\n<\/pre>![](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/paintByNumbersSuperpixels_4.png\"){kind=tracking}
Superpixel Posterization<\/h3>\r\n
A = imread('eddins-horn.png'<\/span>);\r\nimshow(A)\r\ntitle('Original image'<\/span>)\r\n<\/pre>![](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/paintByNumbersSuperpixels_5.png\"){kind=tracking}
[L,N] = superpixels(A,1000);\r\nBW = boundarymask(L);\r\nimshow(imoverlay(A,BW,'cyan'<\/span>))\r\n<\/pre>![](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/files\/paintByNumbersSuperpixels_6.png\"){kind=tracking}
Alab = rgb2lab(A);\r\n<\/pre>
pixel_idx = label2idx(L);\r\n<\/pre>
Aplab = Alab;\r\nLn = numel(L);\r\nfor<\/span> k = 1:N\r\n idx = pixel_idx{k};\r\n Aplab(idx) = mean(Alab(idx));\r\n Aplab(idx+Ln) = mean(Alab(idx+Ln));\r\n Aplab(idx+2*Ln) = mean(Alab(idx+2*Ln));\r\nend<\/span>\r\n<\/pre>Ap = lab2rgb(Aplab);\r\nimshow(Ap)\r\n<\/pre>
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