Add time stamp in seconds

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Jordan
Jordan on 5 Dec 2022
Answered: Jan on 5 Dec 2022
I have a series of images taken at 82fps, I would like to add a time stamp in seconds at the top of each photo.
For example its 400 images of a bubble growing, so I would like to add the seconds at the top of each image.
Heres what I have so far but its not working. Thank you for the help.
clear;clc
%%%identify the window%%%
folderDir='E:\1.ACRYLIC_CHAMBER\20um_coated\vacum_test\Trial_6\1psi\test_1\dry\CUT\CUT\';
ImgSer=dir([folderDir,'*.tif']);
TimeStep=1/82; % time step between two images in min, "MODIFY THIS VALUE ACCORDING TO YOUR EXPER.."
mkdir([folderDir,'TEST'])
for i = 1:300
I=imread([folderDir,ImgSer(i).name]);
%%%% add time
ht2=text(30,30,sprintf('t= %2.2f s',TimeStep*i),'Fontname','times','fontsize',30,'Color','k');
% % % % %%%% add arrow
% % % % a=annotation('arrow',[0.2,0.2],[0.20,0.40]);%,'HeadWidth',5,'HeadLength',5);
% % % % a.Color='red';
imwrite(I,[folderDir,'TEST/',sprintf('%05d.tif',i)],'tif','compression','none');
end

Answers (1)

Jan
Jan on 5 Dec 2022
The text() command inserts text in an axes. Then the text is displayed on the screen. This does not modify the image in any way. Use insertText(), which needs the Image Processing Toolbox:
% [UNTESTED CODE]
inFolder = 'E:\1.ACRYLIC_CHAMBER\20um_coated\vacum_test\Trial_6\1psi\test_1\dry\CUT\CUT\';
outFolder = fullfile(inFolder, 'TEST');
ImgSer = dir(fullfile(inFolder, '*.tif'));
TimeStep = 1/82;
mkdir(outFolder);
for i = 1:300
Img = imread(fullfile(folderDir, ImgSer(i).name));
Img = insertText(sprintf('t= %2.2f s',TimeStep*i), [10, 10], ...
'Fontname', 'Times', 'FontSize', 30, 'TextColor', 'k');
imwrite(Img, fullfile(outFolder, sprintf('%05d.tif', i)], ...
'tif', 'compression', 'none');
end

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