Infrared image processing in Matlab

Question

i would like to process infrared imaging in Matlab. Any kind of processing or techniques. Is there any built-in function in Matlab? And can anyone suggest any books or articles,as well as resources for sample Far Infrared images.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You may want to have a look at the image processing toolbox. There, you find plenty of built-in functionality for denoising and segmentation of any kind of images.

For more detailed answers, I suggest that you let us know in more detail what kind of processing that you want to do.

EDIT

Infrared images are normally grayscale images. Thus, it is very straightforward to false-color them by mapping the gray levels to colors (i.e. by applying a different colormap).

%# load a grayscale image
img = imread('coins.png');

%# display the image
figure
imshow(img,[]);

%# false-color
colormap('hot')

For more information about general techniques, you may want to Google 'infrared image processing' and start looking at the hits related to your specific application.

In general, processing of infrared images is not different from processing other grayscale images. What specific algorithms you apply depends very much on the image and the purpose of the processing.