how to concatenate mat files of different row sizes but same column size vertically?

i am trying to concatenate 8 different matfiles in one newly created matfile. all matfiles have fixed column size but row sizes vary.

but getting this error:

Error using vertcat

Dimensions of matrices being

concatenated are not

consistent.

here is my code:

a = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bdip');

b = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bilateral');

c = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_cdf');

d = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_GradOrient');

e = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_hog');

f = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_lbp');

g = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_rglbp');

h = load('TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_ssgm');

Fv_ROI_concatenated = nan(50,421); %create new mat file

Fv_ROI_concatenated = [a.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bdip,b.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bilateral

,c.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_cdf, d.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_GradOrient, e.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_hog

,f.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_lbp,g.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_rglbp, h.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_ssgm ];

save Fv_ROI_concatenated;

Answer 1

[Massimo Zanetti]

In this line of code:

Fv_ROI_concatenated = [a.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bdip,b.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bilateral,c.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_cdf, d.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_GradOrient, e.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_hog,
f.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_lbp,g.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_rglbp, h.TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_ssgm ];

try replacing all commas with semicolons :)

Answer 2

[Guillaume]

Please use the {} Code button to format your code as code.

I'm unclear from your question whether it's the number of rows or the number of columns that is the same for all matrices. Furthermore, the error you get is not consistent with the code you've shown. You're using horizontal concatenation in the code you've posted (horzcat, because of the ,) whereas the error message would indicate that the actual code used vertical concatenation (vertcat, using ; to separate the matrices).

Anyway, you've got a programming language available that is very good at repeating tasks for you, such as loading 8 (or 30 or 100) different matrices. Take advantage of that:

filestoload = {'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bdip'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_bilateral'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_cdf'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_GradOrient'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_hog'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_lbp'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_rglbp'
               'TwoD_fv_roi_rangefilt_ssgm'};
filescontent = cell(size(filestoload));   %cell array to hold each file content
for fidx = 1:numel(filestoload)
   m = load(filestoload{fidx});
   filescontent{fidx} = m.(filestoload{fidx});
end

This will load all the files, however many there are with you only having to change the file list.

You can then ask matlab to concatenate them along their common dimension:

[nrows, ncols] = cellfun(@size, filescontent);  
if all(nrows == nrows(1))   %same number of rows
   concatenatedfiles = horzcat(filescontent{:});  %concatenate horizontally
elseif all(ncols == ncols(1))  %same number of columns
   concatenatedfiles = vertcat(filescontent{:});  
else
   error('no common dimension');
end