Specifications

The Image Processing Toolbox provides a com-
prehensive set of reference-standard algorithms
and graphical tools for image processing, analy-
sis, visualization, and algorithm development.
You can restore noisy or degraded images,
enhance images for improved intelligibility,
extract features, analyze shapes and textures, and
register two images. Most toolbox functions
are written in the open MATLAB® language.
This means that you can inspect the algorithms,
modify the source code, and create your own
custom functions.
The Image Processing Toolbox supports
engineers and scientists in areas such as
biometrics, remote sensing, surveillance,
gene expression, microscopy, semicon-
ductor testing, image sensor design, color
science, and materials science. It also facili-
tates the learning and teaching of image
processing techniques.
Working with the Image
Processing Toolbox
The Image Processing Toolbox supports
images generated by a wide range of devices,
including digital cameras, frame grab-
bers, satellite and airborne sensors, medical
imaging devices, microscopes, telescopes,
and other scientific instruments. You can
visualize, analyze, and process these images
in many data types, including single- and
double-precision floating-point and signed
or unsigned 8-, 16-, and 32-bit integers.
Importing and Exporting Images
There are several ways to import or export
images into and out of the MATLAB environ-
ment for processing. You can use the Image
Acquisition Toolbox (available separately) to
acquire live images from Web cameras, frame
grabbers, DCAM-compatible cameras, and
other devices. Using the Database Toolbox (also
available separately), you can access images
stored in ODBC/JDBC-compliant databases.
Image Processing Toolbox 5
Perform image processing, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development
KEY FEATURES
■ Image enhancement, including linear and nonlinear filtering,
filter design, deblurring, and automatic contrast enhancement
■ Image analysis, including texture analysis, line detection, mor-
phology, edge detection, segmentation, region-of-interest (ROI)
processing, and feature measurement
■ Color image processing, including color space conversions and
device-independent ICC profile import and export
■ Spatial transformations and image registration, including a
graphical tool for control-point selection
■ Image transforms, including FFT, DCT, Radon, and fan-beam
projection
■ DICOM import and export
■ Interactive image display and modular tools for building image GUIs
■ Support for multidimensional image processing
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The Image Processing Toolbox includes
algorithms for decorrelation stretching
(top), color image processing (center),
and watershed-based segmentation
(bottom).
Pears image courtesy of Corel.
LANDSAT image of Montana courtesy of Space
Imaging, LLC
.