What does this means ?

Dear all,

I picked up a window of 5X5 from a given image im1=im(1:5,1:5)

ans =

   41   40   38   38   37
   42   40   38   37   35
   43   41   38   37   34
   43   41   37   35   33
   42   40   36   33   31

then I used graycomatrix to calculate the glcm matrix as following: glcm=graycomatrix(im1) glcm =

     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     1    19     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0

My questions are: why the result matrix is 8*8 ? how can we get the number of gray levels of an image ? How can i interpret the values 1 and 19 in the glcm matrix ?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

The range between 0 and 255 is divided into 8 ranges by default. They are 0-31, 32- 63, 64-95, etc. As you can see all of your elements are in the second range, except for the one with the value 31. The count is the number of times a number in one range occurs horizontally adjacent to another in another range. You have 19 pairs where the side-by-side pixels are both in range 2, and only one pairing, when it's looking at the very lower right, where there is a pairing between a number in range 2 (33) and a number in range 1 (31). I know it can be kind of tricky, so do you understand that explanation?

You can adjust the window size and the range size. You can have a 256 by 256 array if you want. See my attached demo.

[Ynne]

Thanks a lot. That's great. if i understood correctly the coordinates(2,2) of the value 19 correspond to the range (2) that 19 pairs belongs to. and the value 1 have the coordiantes (2,1) because the pair (33,31) belongs to range 2 and range 1

[Image Analyst]

Yes, that's right.