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Subject: ignore part of an image

From: Dave Brackett

Date: 10 Oct, 2008 14:44:04

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Hi, I am doing some simple image processing and my first stage is to crop an image which I do as follows:

% user crop image to just the region of interest
[cropped_image,rect]=imcrop(video_snapshot);
axes(handles.axes5)
imshow(cropped_image)
disp(rect)

I then want to be able to select a rectangular part of the cropped image to be ignored, the part being defined by the user as follows:

% user select part to ignore
ignore=imrect;
position=wait(ignore);
disp(position)

The question I now have is how can I alter the cropped_image from step 1 so that the selected part from step 2 is removed (or coloured white), and thereby ignored?

Hope that makes sense. I would have thought it would be quite simple but can't work out how to do it. Thanks.

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