Image Processing Toolbox™

Getting Help

Product Documentation

The Image Processing Toolbox documentation is available online in both HTML and PDF formats. To access the HTML help, select Help from the menu bar of the MATLAB desktop. In the Help Navigator pane, click the Contents tab and expand the Image Processing Toolbox topic in the list.

To access the PDF help, click Image Processing Toolbox in the Contents tab of the Help browser and go to the link under Printable (PDF) Documentation on the Web. (Note that to view the PDF help, you must have Adobe^® Acrobat^® Reader installed.)

For reference information about any of the Image Processing Toolbox functions, see the online Functions — Alphabetical List, which complements the M-file help that is displayed in the MATLAB command window when you type

help functionname

For example,

help imtool

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Image Processing Demos

The Image Processing Toolbox software is supported by a full complement of demo applications. These are very useful as templates for your own end-user applications, or for seeing how to use and combine your toolbox functions for powerful image analysis and enhancement.

To view all the demos, call the iptdemos function. This displays an HTML page in the MATLAB Help browser that lists all the demos.

You can also view this page by starting the MATLAB Help browser and clicking the Demos tab in the Help Navigator pane. From the list of products with demos, select Image Processing Toolbox.

The toolbox demos are located under the subdirectory

matlabroot\toolbox\images\imdemos

where matlabroot represents your MATLAB installation directory.

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MATLAB Newsgroup

If you read newsgroups on the Internet, you might be interested in the MATLAB newsgroup (comp.soft-sys.matlab). This newsgroup gives you access to an active MATLAB user community. It is an excellent way to seek advice and to share algorithms, sample code, and M-files with other MATLAB users.

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Example 2 — Advanced Topics

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