How do I overlay an rgb image onto a background image?

Hello, I'm quite new to MATLAB and I've been trying to find a solution to what seems like a simple problem.

I have an RGB image and I would like to create a white border around it. In particular, I want the border at the bottom to be quite a bit larger to allow for some text. Then I will loop over all images in a directory and process them in that way.

I'm sure I have to create a background image whose dimensions are simply a bit larger than the rgb image, and then just overlay the rgb image onto the background. I need some help doing the overlaying part. Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

[John BG]

Hi Lewis

If I have understood your question correctly, you want to do the following:

1. clear all;clc

A=imread('image1.jpg');
figure(1);imshow(A);  % select image to have frame built around
[sza1 sza2 sza3]=size(A);  % note sza2 is X, and sza1 is Y

2. define offsets, in this question 2 2D offset points, for instance

dx1=20
dy1=30
% 2nd offset point
dx2=60
dy2=120

3. generate void image to output, 0 is white, 255 is black

B=255*ones(sza1+dy1+dy2,sza2+dx1+dx2,sza3);
B=uint8(B);  % if this step missed MATLAB function imshow flattens it all to whites

4. overlay R G B layers separately

A1=A(:,:,1);A2=A(:,:,2);A3=A(:,:,3);
B1=B([dy1:1:sza1+dy1-1],[dx1:1:sza2+dx1-1],1);
B2=B([dy1:1:sza1+dy1-1],[dx1:1:sza2+dx1-1],2);
B3=B([dy1:1:sza1+dy1-1],[dx1:1:sza2+dx1-1],3);

B1=A1;
B2=A2;
B3=A3;

B([dy1:1:sza1+dy1-1],[dx1:1:sza2+dx1-1],1)=B1;
B([dy1:1:sza1+dy1-1],[dx1:1:sza2+dx1-1],2)=B2;
B([dy1:1:sza1+dy1-1],[dx1:1:sza2+dx1-1],3)=B3;

et voilà

5.

figure(2);imshow(B)

6. post-processing, like for instance saving result to file: imwrite(B,'result_file_name.jpg')

so dear Lewis

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thanks in advance

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[Lewis]

Perfect! Thanks a lot for this, and for replying so quickly.

[John BG]

happy to help

any time :)

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

You can use the padarray() function.

[John BG]

there are so many things one can do be do be do

[Image Analyst]

To be explicit:

% Add a 50 pixel wide white boundary around the image.
paddedImage = padarray(rgbImage, [50, 50], 255);