Image Processing Toolbox

About This Manual

This manual has four main parts:

• Chapter 1, Getting Started, contains two step-by-step examples that will help you get started using the Image Processing Toolbox. This chapter is written as both an introduction to the most frequently used operations, as well as a demonstration of some of the image analysis that can be performed.
• Chapter 2, Introduction, and Chapter 3, Displaying and Printing Images, discuss working with image data and displaying images in MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox.
• Chapters 4 to 11 provide in-depth discussion of the concepts behind the software. Each chapter covers a different topic in image processing. For example, Chapter 7 discusses linear filtering, and Chapter 11 discusses binary image operations. Each chapter provides numerous examples that apply the toolbox to representative image processing tasks.
• Chapter 12, Function Reference, gives a detailed reference description of each toolbox function. Reference descriptions include a synopsis of the function's syntax, as well as a complete explanation of options. Many reference descriptions also include examples, a description of the function's algorithm, and references to additional reading material.

User Experience Levels

This section gives brief suggestions for how to use the documentation, depending on your level of experience in using the toolbox and MATLAB, and your knowledge of image processing concepts.

All new toolbox users should read Chapter 1, Getting Started and Chapter 2, Introduction.

Note    If you are not familiar with MATLAB, it is strongly suggested that you start by reading and running the examples in Getting Started with MATLAB.

Users who are less knowledgeable about image processing concepts will find that the following chapters, in particular, contain valuable introductory discussions: Chapter 5, Neighborhood and Block Operations, Chapter 6, Linear Filtering and Filter Design, Chapter 9, Binary Image Operations, and Chapter 11, Color.

Experienced toolbox users should read the Release Notes. This guide is available as an online document that can be opened by clicking on its title at the top of the Contents tab of the MATLAB Help browser. To open the Help browser, select Help from the MATLAB desktop's View menu.

While experienced users may primarily prefer to use the reference chapters of this user guide, they should note that some functions are demonstrated in longer examples in the tutorial chapters. To see if a function has an example in a tutorial chapter, check the index entry of the function name.

Post Installation Notes

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