Why does MATLAB read a picture and add noise on it?
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Hi,
I typed in matlab the following command:
x=imread('pic.gif')
imshow(x);
I would expect that the output image look exactly like the one MATLAB read. However, it didn't happen. MATLAB gave an output that looked like the original one, but with a lot of noise... My question is why don't I get exactly the same image?
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Titus Edelhofer
on 26 Mar 2015
Hi,
your image is an indexed image, not RGB. Therefore you need to read the colormap as well:
[a,b] = imread('pic.gif');
imshow(a);
colormap(b);
Titus
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Jan
on 26 Mar 2015
Or:
[c, map] = imread('pic.gif');
img = ind2rgb(c, map);
imshow(img)
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Image Analyst
on 26 Mar 2015
If you didn't supply a color map, and the image was uint8, then it just chose the gray scale colormap. But since the pixel value is really a row number into a colormap instead of an intensity value, the image most likely looked like a bunch of black/white/gray garbage/noise.
Titus Edelhofer
on 27 Mar 2015
It was not 100% noise, since the colormap of the image had some similarity to simple gray scale. That's why it did not look completely weird but just "with some noise".
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