Thread Subject: Why are image pixels in matlab normalized to [0,1]?

Someone asked me recently,
"Why does matlab normalize pixels to [0,1]?"

I realize it doesn't always, but when you convert it to a double image, it does.

I suspect that this has to do with the accuracy of the values in the double.
Is it because half of the double values are above 1.0 and half are below?

Thanks

In article <h4kqaa$k8d$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
 "Pat Finder" <pfinder@netacc.net> wrote:

> Someone asked me recently,
> "Why does matlab normalize pixels to [0,1]?"
>
> I realize it doesn't always, but when you convert it to a double image, it
> does.
>
> I suspect that this has to do with the accuracy of the values in the double.
> Is it because half of the double values are above 1.0 and half are below?
>
> Thanks


Hi "Pat",

It's just a convention based on the fact that MATLAB's preferred data
type is double -- nothing more.

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