image arithmetic result not the same
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Aaron Connell
on 26 Feb 2018
Commented: Aaron Connell
on 26 Feb 2018
Good evening, I have a question about image arithmetic. Below is some code that reads in a grayscale image and performs arithmetic on it. I want to know why the modified image does not look the same when we essentially divided the image pixels by 64 and then multiplied the result by 64. the resulting image should have been identical. Below is the image of the result:
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b=imread('blocks.jpg');
class(b); %shows it is a uint8 image
b2=(b/64)*64;
subplot(1,2,1)
imshow(b)
title('original image')
subplot(1,2,2)
imshow(b2)
title('modified image')
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Walter Roberson
on 26 Feb 2018
>> uint8(65)/64
ans =
uint8
1
>> uint8(63)/64
ans =
uint8
1
we deduce from this that when you do arithmetic on an int8 or uint8, the result is always as if you had done the arithmetic in double precision, then rounded it, and converted back to the data type.
>> uint8(round(double(uint8(65))/double(64)))
ans =
uint8
1
>> uint8(round(double(uint8(63))/double(64)))
ans =
uint8
1
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Steven Lord
on 26 Feb 2018
How many unique values can the results of (b/64)*64 take on?
b = intmin('int8'):intmax('int8');
b2 = (b/64);
unique(b2)
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