how can I removing the background of an image?

I want to crop the leaf image from grey background for further image processing (image recognation) without cropping method cause i only need the leaf. I'm attaching the image. Please help me in this regard.

Answer 1

[Muhammad Usman Saleem]

You can also take a look at my color segmentation tutorials: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/116126#answer_124379

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Search for the tag "leaf" http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/?term=tag%3A%22leaf%22 This comes up frequently and you'll find code from me in some of those hits. Let me know if you can't adapt the code and I'll help.

[Mentari Hidanti]

i use this code but the image become like this (capture 1). actualy i need my image to be (capture 2). please i need your help.thanks

% Mask a leaf out of an RGB image. clc; % Clear the command window. clear all; close all; workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing. format long g; format compact; fontSize = 24; %=============================================================================== % Read in leaf color demo image. folder = pwd baseFileName = 'leaf.jpg'; % Get the full filename, with path prepended. fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName); if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % Didn't find it there. Check the search path for it. fullFileName = baseFileName; % No path this time. if ~exist(fullFileName, 'file') % Still didn't find it. Alert user. errorMessage = sprintf('Error: %s does not exist.', fullFileName); uiwait(warndlg(errorMessage)); return; end end rgbImage = imread(fullFileName); % Get the dimensions of the image. numberOfColorBands should be = 3. [rows, columns, numberOfColorChannels] = size(rgbImage); % Display the original color image. subplot(2, 2, 1); imshow(rgbImage); title('Original Color Image', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None'); % Enlarge figure to full screen. set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'Outerposition', [0, 0, 1, 1]); % Extract the individual red, green, and blue color channels. % redChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 1); % greenChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 2); blueChannel = rgbImage(:, :, 3); % Create a mask of the background only. mask = blueChannel > 200; % Display the mask image. subplot(2, 2, 2); imshow(mask); title('Mask Image', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None'); % Mask out the leaf, leaving only the background. % Mask the image using bsxfun() function maskedRgbImage = bsxfun(@times, rgbImage, cast(mask, 'like', rgbImage)); % Display the mask image. subplot(2, 2, 3); imshow(maskedRgbImage); title('Background-Only Image', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None'); % Mask out the background, leaving only the leaf. % Mask the image using bsxfun() function maskedRgbImage = bsxfun(@times, rgbImage, cast(~mask, 'like', rgbImage)); % Display the mask image. subplot(2, 2, 4); imshow(maskedRgbImage); title('Leaf-Only Image', 'FontSize', fontSize, 'Interpreter', 'None');

[Image Analyst]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/13205-tutorial-how-to-format-your-question-with-markup