Re: Missing functions from the MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 25.02.2014, at 13:08, Mahdi Al-Khalaf <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am an Electrical Engineering student and many of the courses that we take 
> use MATLAB for computations. Now since I am a lover of open source in general 
> and GNU in particular I have decided to use GNU Octave in place of MATLAB for 
> these applications.
> 
> One of the courses that I am currently taking is on Digital Image Processing 
> and we are using the Image Processing Toolbox extensively in our assignments. 
> Unfortunately Octave does not yet implement all of the functions that I will 
> need for this course like for example "rgb2gray", "im2bw" and "histeq". So I 
> have decided to write my own implementations of all the functions that I will 
> need which are not yet supported. So far I have written implementations for 
> "rgb2gray" and "im2bw" and soon I will have to write an implementation for 
> "histeq".
> 
> I wanted to ask about whether I can contribute my implementations to be 
> built-in functions of GNU Octave and how to do so?
> 
>  If this is not the right place for this question then I apologize for my 
> misjudgment.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Mahdi Al-Khalaf


Have you tried to install the "image" package from OctaveForge [1]? All three 
functions you're mentioning are part of this image package. Once installed, you 
need to load the package with

        pkg load image

Hope this helps,
Lukas

[1]
http://octave.sourceforge.net/image/index.html