Can I move an object in an image to the center of FOV?

I have a NxN matrix defining the FOV of a camera. Approximately in the middle of FOV is an object that generates a height profile. I want to be able to move the centroid of the object to the exact center of the FOV matrix. I really don't care about the NaNs created by the translation of object. I will fill the NaNs generated by this translation to zeros. What is the best way to accomplish this.Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I'd first segment the image to find the object. This really depends on what the object looks like. Then you can get a new image (not a live one though) that has the object at the center by using imtranslate().

[Chockalingam Kumar]

Thanks for the quick response. Let me try it and I will let you know how it works.

[Image Analyst]

Use

props = regionprops(mask, 'Centroid');
hold on;
% Plot red crosses at the centroid location(s).
for k = 1 : length(props)
    plot(props(k).Centroid(1), props(k).Centroid(2), 'r+', 'MarkerSize', 20, 'LineWidth', 2);
end

to get a list of the centroids of all blobs in your segmented image.